. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. hey loved and admired their mighty mother country,and only sought to be admitted to the Britishunion as equals, instead of as submissive
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. hey loved and admired their mighty mother country,and only sought to be admitted to the Britishunion as equals, instead of as submissive after Lexington, a majority of the colonists prob-ably hoped that England would relent, and that some com-promise could be arranged. It was only as the quarrel warpersisted in step by step, that the necessity for independenciwas recognized. Some very earnest and honorable men neverdid recognize it; and, setting their duty to the King abovethat to the colonies, became loyalists or tories, sacrificinghome, friends, and fortune, and finally departing as exiles fromthe land of their birth, rather than surrender what they con-ceived to be their honor. Other people of course were tories for themoney and favor to be gained from the British ; and it is not surprising that themass of the American people made no distinction between the two classes, buthated a tory as a traitor. It is well to bear in mind that in the Middle States and in the extreme. 1^66 The Story of the Greatest Nations South there was quite a strong tory minority. Perhaps in Georgia it was amajority. Ignorant men can be roused to resist oppression only when theyhave undergone its personal effects, and Englands tyranny had reached thatacute stage only in North Carolina under the cruel Tryon, and at is not, therefore, from the ignorant that the strength of the patriot causewas drawn, but from among thinking men, from New England, where everyfarmer was a scholar as well, and from Virginia and its surrounding
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