Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . d accord-ing to the dictates of his own conscience. But rulers are loth to losetheir power, and religious intolerance still oppressed the these circumstances, a body of religious heroes at lengthdetermined to seek in the wilds of America that measure of civil andreligious freedom which they so much desired. Dec. 27, 1620, theMayflower landed one hundred of these voluntary exiles on thecoast of New England. Here, says Martyn, New England wasborn, and this was its first baby cry, —
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . d accord-ing to the dictates of his own conscience. But rulers are loth to losetheir power, and religious intolerance still oppressed the these circumstances, a body of religious heroes at lengthdetermined to seek in the wilds of America that measure of civil andreligious freedom which they so much desired. Dec. 27, 1620, theMayflower landed one hundred of these voluntary exiles on thecoast of New England. Here, says Martyn, New England wasborn, and this was its first baby cry, — a prayer and a thanksgivingto the Lord. Another permanent English settlement was made at Jamestown,Va., thirteen years before this, in 1607. In process of time othersettlements w^ere made and colonies organized, which were all subjectto the Enghsh crown till the declaration of independence, July 4, 1776. The population of these colonies, according to the United StatesMagazine, amounted, in 1701, to 262,000; in 1749, to 1,046,000; in1775, to 2, Then commenced the struggle of the American. THE PROGRESS OF A CENTURY 33 colonies against the oppression of the mother country. In 1776 theydeclared themselves, as in justice and right they were entitled to be,a free and independent nation. In 1777 delegates from the thirteenoriginal States, — New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary-land, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, — inCongress assembled, adopted Articles of Confederation. In 1783 thewar of the Revolution closed with a treaty of peace with Great Brit-ain, whereby our independence was acknowledged, and territoryceded to the extent of 815,615 square miles. In 1787 the Constitu-tion was framed, and ratified by the foregoing thirteen States; andon the first day of March, 1789, it went into operation. Then theAmerican ship of state was fairly launched, with less than onemillion square
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