E 178 14644 1849 vl Buhr Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. Grad/isel gift 9-23-99 add ADVERTISEMENT. OF centennial sermons and Fourth-of-July orations, whether professedly such or in the guise of history, there are more than enough. It is due to our fathers and ourselves, it is due to truth and philosophy, to present for once, on the historic stage, the founders of our American nation unbedaubed with patriotic rouge, wrapped up in no fine-spun cloaks of excuses and apology, without stilts, buskins, tinsel, or bedizzenment, in their own proper persons, often rude, hard, narrow, superstitious, and mistaken, but always earnest, downright, manly, and sincere. The result of their labors is eulogy enough; their best apology is to tell their story exactly as it was. We have accordingly, in this book, an attempt to set forth the personages of our colonial and revolutionary history, such as they really were in their own day and generation, living and breathing men, their faults as well as their virtues, their weaknesses as well as their strength-for to know men, we must know them in both aspects; an endeavor to trace our institutions, religious, social, and political, from their embryo state; to show, in fine, from what beginnings, by what influen Newfoundland Fishery; Coast and Climate of North America 51 Administration of Justice; Right of private Vengeance. Treatment of Enemies; Adoption... Hunting and Fishing; Wood-craft; Migratory Habits Traces of a former more numerous Population.. General Similarity North of the Gulf of Mexico Aboriginal Inhabitants of the rest of America.. |