CHAPTER XL.

PROGRESS OF LOUISIANA.

Louisiana, p. 479- The French on the Ohio, 480 - English Jealousy aroused,

480-Indifference of Walpole, 481- Vincennes, 481-Louisiana under Crozat,

482-The Credit System of Law, 484- The Mississippi Company, 485 - New

Orleans, 486 - War between France and Spain, 487 - France claims Texas, 487

-Progress and End of the Mississippi Company, 487-Its Moral, 490 — The

Natchez, 491- They begin a Massacre, 493 — The Natchez are defeated, 494 —

The Crown resumes Louisiana, 495 - War with the Chickasaws, 495- D'Arta-

guette and Vincennes, 497- War renewed, 498 - Louisiana in 1740, 499.

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CHAPTER XLI.

TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE HOUSE OF

HANOVER.

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Progress of Anglo-American Colonies, p. 500 — Taxation by Parliament, 500

-Regulation of Charters, 501 - Colonial Manufactures repressed, 502- Par-

liament and Colonial Administration, 503 — Carolina, 503-Pennsylvania, 503

-Virginia, 503- New Jersey, 503- New York, 504-Massachusetts, 504 —

Policy of Sir Robert Walpole, 505- The Board of Trade on Colonial Commerce

and such Encroachments, 506 - Proposes a New System of Colonial Admin-

istration, 507 - The Charters in Danger, 508 — Dummer's Defence of the Char-

ters, 508 — Advice of Trenchard, 510— Flight of Shute to England, 510 — The

Duke of Newcastle, 511-Opinion of Yorke on the Power of Parliament to tax

the Colonies, 512-New York Assembly and Periodical Grants, 512- Burnet

succeeded by Montgomery, 513-Sir William Keith and a New Plan of Colo-

nial Administration, 513- Burnet in Boston, 513- Belcher made Governor of

Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 515-New York and New Jersey, 516 —

Carolina, 517- Contest on Laws of Inheritance, 519- Gee on Colonial Trade,

519-The Restrictive System, 521 — Discrimination in Favor of Southern Colo-

nies, 522-Of the Islands against the Continent, 523 - Prohibitory Duties for

the Colonists, 524 — Cosby, 524- The Press, 525 — Clarke in New York, 526

-Walpole and Colonial Commerce, 527 The Board of Trade urges Strong

Measures, 528- Paper Money, 529 — Religion in the Colonies, 532 - Beneficent

Measure of Parliament, 533-Prosperity of the Colonies, 533-Immigration,

534-Berkeley, 535 - Education and the Press, 537- Benjamin Franklin, 538

-Growth of Liberty, 541.

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CHAPTER XLII.

BRITISH MONOPOLY OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.

COLONIZATION OF GEORGIA.

Motives of an Historian to write a True History; Test of Truth, p. 544-

Truth in History can be ascertained, 545- The Law of Progress, 545- History

the Record of God's Providence, 545-Edwards, Vico, Bossuet, 545-Metro-

politan Monopolists divided, 546-South Sea Company and the Assiento, 547 —

Opstore meng the Munkci gan, p. 573 — England and English Strugglers,

574 - Tax of deskine's Fan, 175 — The Convention, 176— War. 57. — Ansoe.

577 - Vernon at Porto Pein, 577- Attack on Cartagena, 57- Success,

579 — Og sturge, invadra Yorida, 1885)—Spaniards invade Georgia, 580-

Character & Ogatione, 11—bavery in Georgia, 382–Fairy sverse to
War. int -War of the Austrian Succession, 583 — War of France with Eng-
1.4. 183 •The Pretender, 184 - Proderie IL and Prussia, 585 — War in the
Yant Indias, 1865-– Mairax taken, 585 – Behring discovers North-West America,

The Contra, Provinces undaturbed, 586 - Treaty at Lancaster with the

hix Nations, 127 — Franklin's Volunteer Militia, 588 — New England resolves

to conquer Lonísburg, 548 - The Expedition, 599-Sails to Cape Breton, 590

Lands at Louisburg, 501-The Siege, 502-The Surrender, 563- Iil Suc-

cess of French Fleets, 364-Plan of conquering Canada abandoned, 594 —

Kalm's Opinion, 1984-Impressment of Sailors, 595- Congress of Aix-la-

Chapelle, 566 - Washington, 5657.

COLONIAL HISTORY,

VOL. II.

CONTINUED.

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COLONIAL HISTORY,

CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XXI.

MARYLAND.

THE progress of Maryland, under the more generous proprietary government, was tranquil and rapid. Like Virginia, Maryland was a colony of planters; its 1660. staple was tobacco, and its prosperity was equally checked by the navigation acts. Like Virginia, it possessed no considerable village; its inhabitants were scattered among the woods and along the rivers; each plantation was a little world within itself, and legislation vainly attempted the creation of towns by statute. Like Virginia, its laborers were in part indented servants, whose term of service was limited by persevering legislation; in part negro slaves whose importation was favored both by English cupidity and by provincial statutes. As in Virginia, the appointing power to nearly every office in the counties as well as in the province was not with the people, and the judiciary was placed beyond their control; while the party of the proprietary, which possessed the government, was animated by a jealous regard for his prerogative and derived his authority from the will of Heaven. As in Virginia, the taxes imposed by the county officers were not conceded by the direct vote of the people, and were burdensome alike from their excessive amount and the manner of their levy. But, though the administration of Maryland did not favor the increasing spirit of popular liberty, it was marked by conciliation and humanity. To foster industry, to promote union, to cherish religious peace, - these were the honest purposes of Lord Baltimore during his long supremacy.