Maryland, p. 3 – Death of Lord Baltimore, 5 — “Baconists” in Mary-
land, 7-Restrictions on Suffrage, 7 -- Protestantism, 8- A Tory President,
9– Revolution, 10 — Culpepper in Virginia, 10 – Increase of Royal Power, 11
— Appeals to the Assembly prohibited, 12–Virginia redeemed, 13 — Howard of
Effingham, 13 — Rebels sent to Virginia, 13 — Kidnapped Men and Boys, 14 –
Despotism, - Resisted, 16 — Ten cies to Union, 17.
Holland and Union, p. 18— Revolution in the Netherlands, 19 - Holland, 20
– Zealand, 20 — Origin of the Dutch West India Company, 23 — Henry Hud-
son, 25 —Sails up the North River, 27 — The Uncultivated Wilderness, 29 –
Geographical Features, 30 — Progress, 30 — Hudson's Last Voyage, 32 – The
Dutch Traffic on the North River, 33 —— Albany, 35 — Olden Barneveldt and
Grotius oppose Colonization in America, 36 - West India Company chartered,
37 - Colonization, 37 — Colonial Diplomacy, 38 — Charter of Liberties, 40 -
Monopoly of Lands, 43 – De Vries plants Delaware, 44 — Dutch Fort at Hart-
ford, 45 — Gustavus Adolphus and New Sweden, 46 — Dutch and Indian Wars,
49 - Municipal Liberties desired, 53 – Roger Williams mediates a Truce, 54 –
Peace, 54 - New Albion, 55 — Stuyvesant's Administration, 56 – New Swe-
den, 56 - Amsterdam purchases Delaware, 56 — Emigrants, 57 — Jews, 58 -
Waldenses, 59 - Huguenots, 59 — Africans, 60 - Dawn of Democratic Liberty,
01– Effects of the Restoration of Charles II., 64 — Conquest of New Nether-
land, 68 — New Jersey, 70 - Delaware, 73 — New York, 74 - New York recon-
quered, 75 – Restored, 75 – Rights of Neutral Flags, 77.
Unity of the Human Race, p. 78 — Progress of Emancipation, 78 - Power of
the People in England, 80 – Progress of Intellectual Freedom, 80 — Speculative
Truth, 81 – Quakers, 81 - George Fox, 81 — Struggle for Freedom of Mind, 82
- Obtains it, 84— Preaches Freedom to the People, 84 - His Purpose, 86 -
The Inner Light, 87 — Its Reality, 87 — Quaker Method, the Method of Des.
cartes, 87 — Asserts Freedom of Conscience, and of Mind, 88 — Repels Super-
stition, 89 - Respects Universal and Necessary Truths, 90 — The Bible, 90 —
Christianity, 91 – Philosophy, 92 - Quaker Morality, 92 – Vows, 93 — Power,
93 — Riches, 93 - Education, 93 - Capital Punishment, 94— Imprisonment for
Debt, 94 – War, 94 — Cominon Prayer, 94 — The Sacraments, 94 — Mourning,
94 - Oaths, 94 - Sensual Pleasures, 94 — Dress, 95-Style, 95 —— Tracts, 95
Hireling nistry, 95 - Persecution, 95 — Resistance, 96 - Quaker Method of
Revolution, 96 — Power of Truth, 97 — Faith in Humanity, 97 — Universal
Enfranchisement, 98 — Priesthood, 99 — Woman, 99 — Kings, 99 — Nobles, 99
Titles, 99 — Hat Worship, 100 — Influence of the Age on Fox, 100 — Progress
of his Opinions, 100 — Quakers persecuted, 101 — They buy West New Jersey,
102— The Concessions, 102 – The Quaker Constitution, 102— Relations with
the Indians, 103 — With the Duke of York, 103 — Progress of the Settlement,
105.
William Penn, p. 107 — Pennsylvania, 107 – Letter to the People, 108 —
Monopoly, 109 — Government, 111 – Free Society, 111 - Delaware, 111 – Sails
for America, 112— Life of Penn, 112 - John Locke and Penn, 119 -- Penn on
the Delaware, 121 – The Great Treaty with the Indians, 122 — Organization of
the Government, 124 - Penn and Baltimore, 125 — Philadelphia, 125 — Consti-
tutions established, 126 — Trial for Witchcraft, 128 – Progress, 128 — Penn's
Farewell, 130 - Boundary with Maryland, 130 — Penn in England, 131 – His
Fame, 131 - His Fortunes, 133 — Quaker Legislation, 134 - Indian Alarm, 135
- Slavery, 135 — Death of George Fox, 136.
Andros in New York, p. 137 — Claims Connecticut, 137 — Character of James
II., 138— His Colonial Policy, 139 — New York discontented, 140 — East New
Jersey, 141 – Cause of the Emigration of Scottish Presbyterians, 142 — No
Persecution in New Jersey, 144- Free Trade in New York, 145 — - Charter of
Liberties, 116 - The Five Nations, 146 — Their Wars with other Tribes, 147
With the French, 148 — Treaty at Albany, 150 — War with the French, 152
Policy of Louis XIV., 153 — Magnanimity of the Onondagas, 153 — War re-
vived, 154 — Treaty for New England, 154 — Dudley, Andros, 154 — Tyranny,
156 — John Wise resists, 156 — Connecticut, 158 — Rhode Island, 159 - Con-
solidation, 160.
– The Tories, the Whigs, 168 — Penn's Party, 169 — The Revolution of 1688,
170 — Revolution in Massachusetts, 171 — Plymouth, 172- Rhode Island, 173
Connecticut, New York, 173 - Absolute Sovereignty of Parliament, 174.
Population of the Twelve Oldest States in 1688, p. 175 — Elements of the Coun-
try, 175 — A Free People, 175 — An Anglo-Saxon People, 176 — Character of
the Virginians, 176 — A Christian People, 177 - A Protestant People, 177 —
Political Character of Protestantism, 177 — Christianity originally an Enfran-
chisement, 177 - Origin of the Political Influence of the Seven Sacraments, 178
– The Exclusive Sacraments found a Spiritual Tyranny, 178— Imperfect Re-
sistance from Scholastic Theologians; from Sensualists; from the Feudal Aris-
tocracy; from Monarchs; from Scholars, 179 - Wycliffe appeals to the People,
179 — John Huss, 179 - Luther and Lutheranism, 180 — Anabaptists, 181 — Cal-
vin, 182 — Political Mission of Calvinism, 183 — Calvinism revolutionized the
English World, 183 — Calvinism and Massachusetts, 183 — Progress in New
England, 184 — Connecticut, 184 – Rhode Island, 184 — The Quakers, 185
Coincidence of Quakers and Descartes, 185 — America struggles for Universal-
ity, 185 — Influence on the Red Man, 185 - On the Black Man, 185 — France,
England, and the Rising Colonies, 186.
The Fortunes of the Stuarts, p. 188 – The Aristocratic Revolution of Eng-
land, 188 — Character of William of Orange, 189 — Sketch of Somers, 190
The Revolution vindicates English Liberties, 190 — The Anglican Church, 190
Right of Resistance, 192 — Power of Parliament, 192 — Influence of the Com-
mercial Classes, 193 — Theory of the Revolution, 194 - Power of Opinion, 194
- Free Press, 195 — Character of the Revolution, 195 — Parties in South Caro-
lina, 196 — Abrogation of Locke's Constitution, 198 — Archdale, 198 — Prog-
ress; Huguenots enfranchised, 199 — High Church Faction, 200 — Produce of
Carolina, 201 — North Carolina, 202— Its Anarchy, 203 — Progress, 203
Virginia, 205 — Forms of Government, 206 — The Church, 207 Character of
its People, 208 — Maryland, 210 — The Protestant Association, 210— Legisla-
tion, 211– Power of Proprietary restored, 211.
Pennsylvania, p. 214– Delaware, 214 — George Keith's Schism, 215 —
Fletcher claims the Government, 216 — Penn restored, 219 — Negroes, 219
New Constitution, 220 – New Jersey, 223 — It becomes a Royal Province, 225
- New York, 226 - Leisler, 237 - Sloughter arrives, 228 — Leisler and Mil-
Connecticut, p. 242 — Commands its own Militia, 243 — Rhode Island, 244 -
Charters endangered, 244 — Massachusetts, 245 - Revolution in Opinion, 247 —
Belief in Witchcraft, 247 — Cotton Mather, 248 — Glover, the Witch, 249 –
Skepticism, 250 – Cotton Mather, the Champion of Witchcraft, 250 – New
Charter, 252 – New Hampshire a Royal Province, 254 - Phips and Stough-
ton, 255 — Witchcraft at Salem, 256 — The New Charter arrives, 258 — The
Hanging of Witches begins, 259 - More Victims, 261 — Confessions, 262 –
Willard, Burroughs, Proctor, 262 — Currier, Jacobs, 263 — Last Executions, 264
-Cotton Mather's “Wonders of the Invisible World,” 265 – Meeting of General
Court, 266 — The Delusion over, 267 — Moral Revolution, 269-Dudley, 270.
The Principles of the Revolution applied by the Colonies to their own Condi-
tion, p. 271 -- The Anglican Church in England and Ireland, 272-King Wil-
liam desires Union, 273 - System of James II., 273 — The System of Governing
by Instructions, 274 – Appointment of the Board of Trade, 275 — Its Plan of
Union, 276 – The Constitution proposed by Penn, 277 — Parliament and Taxa-
tion, 278 — The Prerogative and the Veto, 278 — The Judiciary, 279 — Writ of
Habeas Corpus, 279 — The Press, 279 — The Church, 279 — The Slave-Trade,
280 - The Charter Governments threatened, 280 — The Mercantile System sus-
tained and developed, 282— Courts of Admiralty, 283 — Laws against Manufac-
tures in the Colonies, 284 — Opposition to the Mercantile System, 285 — Piracy,
286 — Regulation of Colonial Currency, 286 — American Post-Office, 287-
Naval Stores and the Navy, 287 — As yet no Taxation by Parliament, 288-
Tendencies to Independence, 288.
European Colonial System, p. 290 — Mercantile System, 291 - Its Develop-
ments, 291
The System of Portugal, 293 - Spain, Holland, 294 — France and
England, 294 — New France, 298 — The Hundred Associates, 298 — Jesuits, 298
Jesuits in Canada, 299 — Character of Brebeuf, 301 — Mode of Life, 302 –
Hospital, 303 — Ursuline Convent, Montreal, 304 – Progress of Missions, 304 —
Raymbault and Jogues at the Falls of the St. Mary, 306 — Jogues in Western
New York, 308 — Bressani, 310 — Mission on the Kennebec, 311 - Martyrdom
of Jogues, 312 – Of Daniel, 313 — Of Brebeuf and Lallemand, 314 — Missions to
the Five Nations, 315 — Dablon, 317 – René Mesnard, Chaumonot, 318.
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