CHAPTER XXXII.

New England in 1641—Inhabitants—Villages—Churches—Houses—Agriculture—Commerce— Trade—Manufactures—Foreign Influence of the Pilgrims—The Tone of New England in treating with the Long Parliament during the Civil War—Two Rejected Invitations—Consolidation of Colonial Liberty—The Oppressed made Guests of the Commonwealth—The Germ of Union—The UNITED COLONIES OF NEW ENGLAND—Character of the League—Reflections—Colonial Union the Crowning Service of the Pilgrim Fathers to Humanity—The Second Generation—The Work and the Lesson of the Pilgrim Fathers 415

THE

PILGRIM FATHERS

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NEW ENGLAND.