. A history of the United States. chin New York, the Germans in Pennsylvania, and the Frenchin Detroit and the Illinois country still kept the language andways of their fathers in theOld World. Why the People knew soLittle of One Another. —The newspapers were moreenterprising than they hadbeen before the war, butthey were not distributedthrough the post - offices,and were therefore hard toobtain. The post-officeshandled only letters. Post-riders carried the Httle mailthere was in saddle-bags attached to the saddles. A pair ofsaddle-bags was enough to carry the mail on any trip be-tween New Yor
. A history of the United States. chin New York, the Germans in Pennsylvania, and the Frenchin Detroit and the Illinois country still kept the language andways of their fathers in theOld World. Why the People knew soLittle of One Another. —The newspapers were moreenterprising than they hadbeen before the war, butthey were not distributedthrough the post - offices,and were therefore hard toobtain. The post-officeshandled only letters. Post-riders carried the Httle mailthere was in saddle-bags attached to the saddles. A pair ofsaddle-bags was enough to carry the mail on any trip be-tween New York and Philadelphia or Boston and NewYork. People living in small towns seldom received mail oftenerthan once a week. It was harder and much more expensiveto send a letter to many a backwoods or frontier town thanit is to-day to send it into the interior of China. The post-riders usually left the mail at the town inns. Would the Republic endure? — Many persons wonderedhow long a repubhc, the parts of which were so loosely con-. POST-RIDER OF THE OlDEN TiMES 230 DIFFICULTIES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC nected with one another, would hold together. It was reallythirteen republics, for the Continental Congress had httlepower, and this Congress was the only central authority. Ashrewd Frenchman called the United States a giant with-out bones. He probably meant that the repubUc had noking or nobles to manage its afifairs. Enghsh people thoughtthat the Americans would repent of their separation andreturn to their allegiance to George HI. Many Americans still thought independence a beheved that it meant thirteen small, jealous, quarrel-ing republics, helpless before the first enemy who shouldattack them. Some talked about dividing the United Statesinto three groups, one made up of the New England states,another of the middle states from New York to Maryland,and a third of the southern states. A few wished to havea king, and when Washington spurned the idea that heshould become
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