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Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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KS OF CHARLES //.—The restoration of royaltyin England (1660) was a period of apprehension in ColonialAmerica. King Charles 11. (1660-1685) had no respect for ac-quired rights on this side the Atlantic, and none for the acts ofhis royal predecessors. He would be original or nothing, wouldtear everything to pieces in order to enjoy confusion or thepleasure of reconstruction. His freaks in upsetting old coloniallines and titles astonished the world. Fortunately their very * The first conception of an American union entertained by the founders of NewEngland was to join in political bonds only those colonies in which the peoplewere of a similar way of thinking in theology, when, in the spirit of a theocracy,they aimed to form a Christian state in the bosom of the church. This was em-bodied in the New England Confederacy (1643-1684). Its basis was not broadenough to embrace the whole of this territory, or sufficiently just to include all iUpopulation.—Frothinghams Rise of the Republics
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OLIVER CROMWELL. 99 100 COLONIAL BIRTH AND GROWTH. wildness defeated their aim in many instances, and averted theconfusion whicK would otherwise have attended the kings folly.In other instances, some of the colonies got what they had neverbeen able to get. Winthrop got a splendid charter—in utter disregard of all for-mer grants—for Connecticut (1662), which embraced both theHartford and New Haven colonies, and extended from the Nar-ragansett River to the Pacific Ocean, and the beauty of it was, itgave to the colonists unqualified power to govern themselves.Unwittingly, the king and Clarendon had set up a democracywhere they only intended to create a close corporation. Rhode Island was favored with a new charter (1663) almost asliberal as the old. The little State could now defy Massachu-setts, who had denied her right to separate existence. For Maryland the restoration meant the restoration of its pro-prietary to all his charter rights and privileges. Virginia, through the faithle

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