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Title: A comic history of the United States
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927
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Publisher: New York American book exchange
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lind and bigoted Williams, with afew other reneorades from the Puritanstronghold, established a colony at thehead of Narragansett Bay, which theycalled Providence. Other settlements soon sprang up, andthe hardened sinner Williams went toEngland and obtained a charter whichunited all the settlements into one colony. At the beginning of the RevolutionRhode Island had a population of 50,000blinded bigots. CHAPTER Yin, NEW HAMPSHIRE—SLIM PICKING—AJJ EFFECTIVE INDIANPOLICY—JOHN SMITH AGAIN COMES OUT STRONG. New Hampsliire was a sicHy cliild fromtlie first, and of somewliat uncertain parentage. It was claimed by many proprietors?wlio were continually involved in lawsuits.Its soil was not very fertile, and yieldedlittle else than Indians and lawyers. Theformer were the most virulent of which anyof the colonies could boast, and the latteiwere of the young and rising sort. These two elements managed to make itextremely lively for the average colonist,who was scalped upon the one hand and
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A MAN OF THE NAME OF SMITH. 61 ** skinned upon the other. At first thehomy-handed son of toil fondly hoped toraise corn, but owing to the poverty of thesoil it was a days journey from hill to hill,and as much as a mans scalp was worth toundertake to travel it. At harvest timethere was an immense crop of cobble stonesand no market for them. Fortunately, in time the lawyers becamestarved out, but two great drawbacks toprosperity yet remained; sterility of soiland hostile Indians. But the time was at hand when boththese evils were to be remedied. His namewas Smith—John Smith, of course—whoreadily undertook the contract of not onlyexterminating the Indians, but of fertiliz-ing the soil. To accomplish the first of these great 62 SMITHS INDIAN POLICY. ends, he disguised himself as a medicineman, and went boldly among the noble redmen, inducting them into the mysteries ofthe manufacture and consumption of NewEngland rum. He found them apt pupils,and it was not long before every Red ofthe

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