AMERICA

ILLUSTRATED.

FROM ITS

FIRST DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION.

GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE

EARLY DISCOVERIES BY THE NORTHMEN, SPANIARDS, PORTUGUESE,
FRENCH, ENGLISH, DUTCH, ETC., ETC.:

WITH THEIR

SUFFERINGS AND PRIVATIONS IN FOUNDING COLONIES, THEIR NUMEROUS AND BLOODY
WARS WITH THE INDIANS, A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF ALL THE VARIOUS REV-
OLUTIONS IN THE SEVERAL COLONIES AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF INDE-
PENDENT REPUBLICS, WITH THEIR SUBSEQUENT HISTORY; BEING

THE GREAT EXPERIMENT OF THE WORLD.

BY HENRY BROWNELL, A. M.

TWO VOLUMES, ROYAL OCTAVO.

VOL. II.

THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA. HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE SEVERAL PROVINCES: THEIR
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT: RESISTANCE TO ENGLAND. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. HIS-
TORY OF THE UNITED STATES. CANADA. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, ETC., ETC.

BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH STEEL PLATE ENGRAVINGS,

BY THE FIRST ARTISTS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE.

PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY BY

HURLBUT, WILLIAMS & COMPANY,
AMERICAN SUBSCRIPTION PUBLISHING HOUSE

Hartford, Conn., 1863.

ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1860,

BY HURLBUT, KELLOGG, CO.

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INTRODUCTION.

THE present volume contains a view of one of the grandest demonstrations of human energy which has ever marked the history of any people. This is, the long series of enterprises, hardships, and labors, carried on with unflagging energy for more than two hundred years by the Anglo-Saxon race of England, and which has resulted in the transplantation of their laws, civilization and polity, into a new half of the world; and the erection upon the fairest and best territory of North America, of two vast empires, the United States and the North American Colonial dominions of the crown of Great Britain.

The progress of these two commonwealths-for such they may be called, notwithstanding the subdivisions which exist more especially in the British portion of the continent― has hitherto been in the main an unbroken career of prosperity. The early days of all the separate colonies were afflicted with the evils and hardships which must necessarily vex the pioneers of a civilized race, thrown amidst forests, wild beasts, savages and foemen; but the sufferings and struggles of a hardy youth have given them a strength and solidity of character, which have ever since been their best reliance.

A phenomenon hitherto never seen in the world's history, has marked that of the Anglo-Americans. The new people brought learning and religion with them, and founded

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their state, not merely as a trading post or a farm, but with all the fair and full lineaments of an empire; with church, schools, laws, morals, and society, all matured and adjusted with a wisdom far greater than its possessors were conscious of. As the material growth of their community went on, therefore, its mind and morals kept pace; and its internal health, and the strength of its contexture, maintains a right proportion to the rapid growth of its territory, population, and wealth.

There is every reason to hope that the same Divine power which has thus far watched over the progress of the AngloAmerican race, will continue to grant its protection; and that the career, of which the following pages present a history, is to continue until they shall reach a far loftier station among the nations of the earth, than even that high one to which they have already ascended.