. American history:. 8To follow the advance of this cause thi-ough all the stagesof its progress,—from its feeble beginnings, when the foot of theoppressor would have crushed it, had he not despised its weakness,—through long periods of darkness, enlivened by only an occa-sional glimmering of hope, until it shone fotth. triumphant in thatredemption from foreign bondage, which our fathers of the Revolu-tion purchased for us, forms the most interesting and the most in-structive portion of our history. ^And while we are perusing ourearly annals, let us constantly bear in mind, that it is not mere
. American history:. 8To follow the advance of this cause thi-ough all the stagesof its progress,—from its feeble beginnings, when the foot of theoppressor would have crushed it, had he not despised its weakness,—through long periods of darkness, enlivened by only an occa-sional glimmering of hope, until it shone fotth. triumphant in thatredemption from foreign bondage, which our fathers of the Revolu-tion purchased for us, forms the most interesting and the most in-structive portion of our history. ^And while we are perusing ourearly annals, let us constantly bear in mind, that it is not merelywith the details of casual events, of wars and sufferings, wrongsand retaliations, ineffective in their influences, that we are engaged;but that we are studying a nations progress from infancy to man-hood—and that we are tracing the growth of those principle? ofcivil and religious liberty, which have rendered us one of the hap-piest, most enlightened, and most powerful of the nations of theearth. Part I.] 161. POCAHONTAS SAVING THE UFE OF CAPTAIN SMITH. (See p. 164.) PART II. •EARLY SETTLEMENTS AND COLONIAL HISTORY: 1606. 1 Subject ofPare 11. EXTENDING FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF JAMESTOWN, IN 1607, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, IN 1775; EMBKACINO A PERIOD OF 168 YEARS. CHAPTER I. ^HISTORY OF VIRGINIA.* 3. Chap. I. DIVISIONS. I. ^Virginia under the first charter.—11. T^irgijiia under the second 3. DivMoycharter.—III. Virginia t/nder the third charter.—IV. Virginia frornthe of the London Compauij to the commencement of theFrench and Indian War. I. Virginia UNDER THE FirstCharter.—1. Tlie admin- mrnrnftheistration of the jjovernment of the Virginia colony had i^i^fl? * VIRGINIA, the most northern of the southern United States, and the largest in the Union,often called the Anrirnt Dominion, from its early settlement, contains an area of nearly 70,000S(iuare miles. The state has a throat variety of surface and soil. From the coast to t
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