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УКАЗАТЕЛЬ ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЙ ДЖОНА ФИСКЕ В ПРОЕКТЕ «ГУТЕНБЕРГ»

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## MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS

## THE UNSEEN WORLD AND OTHER ESSAYS

POLITICAL IDEAS

THE MEANING OF INFANCY

## THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND

## THE DESTINY OF MAN

## THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

## THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, Vol. 1 (of 2)

## CRITICAL PERIOD AMERICAN HISTORY

LIFE EVERLASTING

## THROUGH NATURE TO GOD

## A CENTURY OF SCIENCE AND OTHER ESSAYS

## THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL, It Does Pay to Smoke

## OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS, Vol. 1 (of 2)

## OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS, Vol. 2 (of 2)

## IDEA OF GOD--MODERN KNOWLEDGE

ОГЛАВЛЕНИЯ ТОМОВ

МИФЫ И МИФОТВОРЦЫ

Старинные сказания и суеверия в свете сравнительной мифологии

Джон Фиске

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS.

I. THE ORIGINS OF FOLK-LORE.

II. THE DESCENT OF FIRE.

III. WEREWOLVES AND SWAN-MAIDENS.

IV. LIGHT AND DARKNESS.

V. MYTHS OF THE BARBARIC WORLD.

VI. JUVENTUS MUNDI. [150]

VII. THE PRIMEVAL GHOST-WORLD.

NOTE.

FOOTNOTES:

НЕВИДИМЫЙ МИР И ДРУГИЕ ЭССЕ

Джон Фиске

CONTENTS

ESSAYS.

I. THE UNSEEN WORLD.

PART FIRST.

PART SECOND.

II. "THE TO-MORROW OF DEATH."

III. THE JESUS OF HISTORY.

IV. THE CHRIST OF DOGMA.

V. A WORD ABOUT MIRACLES.

VI. DRAPER ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

VII. NATHAN THE WISE.

VIII. HISTORICAL DIFFICULTIES.

IX. THE FAMINE OF 1770 IN BENGAL.

X. SPAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS.

XI. LONGFELLOW'S DANTE.

XII. PAINE'S "ST. PETER."

XIII. A PHILOSOPHY OF ART.

XIV. ATHENIAN AND AMERICAN LIFE.

FOOTNOTES

НАЧАЛО НОВОЙ АНГЛИИ

Или пуританская теократия в ее отношении к гражданской и религиозной свободе

Джон Фиске

1892

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

DETAILED CONTENTS.

THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND.

CHAPTER I.

THE ROMAN IDEA AND THE ENGLISH IDEA.

CHAPTER II.

THE PURITAN EXODUS.

CHAPTER III.

THE PLANTING OF NEW ENGLAND.

CHAPTER IV.

THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERACY.

CHAPTER V.

KING PHILIP'S WAR.

CHAPTER VI.

THE TYRANNY OF ANDROS.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.

NOTES:

СУДЬБА ЧЕЛОВЕКА В СВЕТЕ ЕГО ПРОИСХОЖДЕНИЯ

Джон Фиске

1884

CONTENTS

Man’s Place in Nature as affected by the Copernican Theory.

As affected by Darwinism.

On the Earth there will never be a Higher Creature than Man.

The Origin of Infancy.

The Dawning of Consciousness.

Lengthening of Infancy and Concomitant Increase of Brain-Surface.

Change in the Direction of the Working of Natural Selection.

Growing Predominance of the Psychical Life.

The Origins of Society and of Morality.

Improvableness of Man.

Universal Warfare of Primeval Men.

First checked by the Beginnings of Industrial Civilisation.

Methods of Political Development, and Elimination of Warfare.

End of the Working of Natural Selection upon Man. Throwing off the Brute-Inheritance.

The Message of Christianity.

The Question as to a Future Life.

ВОЙНА ЗА НЕЗАВИСИМОСТЬ

Джон Фиске

С картами, указателем и биографическим очерком

CONTENTS

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Biographical Sketch.

vii

I.

Introduction.

1

II.

The Colonies In 1750.

4

III

The French Wars, and the First Plan of Union.

26

IV.

The Stamp Act, and the Revenue Laws.

39

V.

The Crisis.

78

VI.

The Struggle for the Centre.

104

VII.

The French Alliance.

144

VIII.

Birth of the Nation.

182

Collateral Reading.

195

Index.

197

СПИСОК КАРТ

Facing Page

Invasion of Canada

92

Washington's Campaigns in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

119

Burgoyne's Campaign

130

The Southern Campaign

172

ОТКРЫТИЕ АМЕРИКИ

Джон Фиске

ТОМ I (из II)

CONTENTS

ГЛАВА I. ДРЕВНЯЯ АМЕРИКА.

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The American aborigines 1

Question as to their origin 2, 3

Antiquity of man in America 4

Shell-mounds, or middens 4, 5

The Glacial Period 6, 7

Discoveries in the Trenton gravel 8

Discoveries in Ohio, Indiana, and Minnesota 9

Mr. Cresson's discovery at Claymont, Delaware 10

The Calaveras skull 11

Pleistocene men and mammals 12, 13

Elevation and subsidence 13, 14

Waves of migration 15

The Cave men of Europe in the Glacial Period 16

The Eskimos are probably a remnant of the Cave men 17-19

There was probably no connection or intercourse by water between ancient America and the Old World 20

There is one great American red race 21

Different senses in which the word "race" is used 21-23

No necessary connection between differences in culture and differences in race 23

Mr. Lewis Morgan's classification of grades of culture 24-32

Distinction between Savagery and Barbarism 25

Origin of pottery 25

Lower, middle, and upper status of savagery 26

Lower status of barbarism; it ended differently in the two hemispheres; in ancient America there was no pastoral stage of development 27

Importance of Indian corn 28

Tillage with irrigation 29

Use of adobe-brick and stone in building 29

Middle status of barbarism 29, 30

Stone and copper tools 30

Working of metals; smelting of iron 30

Upper status of barbarism 31

The alphabet and the beginnings of civilization 32

So-called "civilizations" of Mexico and Peru 33, 34

Loose use of the words "savagery" and "civilization" 35

Value and importance of the term "barbarism" 35, 36

The status of barbarism is most completely exemplified in ancient America 36, 37

Survival of bygone epochs of culture; work of the Bureau of Ethnology 37, 38

Tribal society and multiplicity of languages in aboriginal America 38, 39

Tribes in the upper status of savagery; Athabaskans, Apaches, Shoshones, etc. 39

Tribes in the lower status of barbarism; the Dakota group or family 40

The Minnitarees and Mandans 41

The Pawnee and Arickaree group 42

The Maskoki group 42

The Algonquin group 43

The Huron-Iroquois group 44

The Five Nations 45-47

Distinction between horticulture and field agriculture 48

Perpetual intertribal warfare, with torture and cannibalism 49-51

Myths and folk-lore 51

Ancient law 52, 53

The patriarchal family not primitive 53

"Mother-right" 54

Primitive marriage 55

The system of reckoning kinship through females only 56

Original reason for the system 57

The primeval human horde 58, 59

Earliest family-group; the clan 60

"Exogamy" 60

Phratry and tribe 61

Effect of pastoral life upon property and upon the family 61-63

The exogamous clan in ancient America 64

Intimate connection of aboriginal architecture with social life 65

The long houses of the Iroquois 66, 67

Summary divorce 68

Hospitality 68

Structure of the clan 69, 70

Origin and structure of the phratry 70, 71

Structure of the tribe 72

Cross-relationships between clans and tribes; the Iroquois Confederacy 72-74

Structure of the confederacy 75, 76

The "Long House" 76

Symmetrical development of institutions in ancient America 77, 78

Circular houses of the Mandans 79-81

The Indians of the pueblos, in the middle status of barbarism 82, 83

Horticulture with irrigation, and architecture with adobe 83, 84

Possible origin of adobe architecture 84, 85

Mr. Cushing's sojourn at Zuñi 86

Typical structure of the pueblo 86-88

Pueblo society 89

Wonderful ancient pueblos in the Chaco valley 90-92

The Moqui pueblos 93

The cliff-dwellings 93

Pueblo of Zuñi 93, 94

Pueblo of Tlascala 94-96

The ancient city of Mexico was a great composite pueblo 97

The Spanish discoverers could not be expected to understand the state of society which they found there 97, 98

Contrast between feudalism and gentilism 98

Change from gentile society to political society in Greece and Rome 99, 100

First suspicions as to the erroneousness of the Spanish accounts 101

Detection and explanation of the errors, by Lewis Morgan 102

Adolf Bandelier's researches 103

The Aztec Confederacy 104, 105

Aztec clans 106

Clan officers 107

Rights and duties of the clan 108

Aztec phratries 108

The tlatocan, or tribal council 109

The cihuacoatl, or "snake-woman" 110

The tlacatecuhtli, or "chief-of-men" 111

Evolution of kingship in Greece and Rome 112

Mediæval kingship 113

Montezuma was a "priest-commander" 114

Mode of succession to the office 114, 115

Manner of collecting tribute 116

Mexican roads 117

Aztec and Iroquois confederacies contrasted 118

Aztec priesthood; human sacrifices 119, 120

Aztec slaves 121, 122

The Aztec family 122, 123

Aztec property 124

Mr. Morgan's rules of criticism 125

He sometimes disregarded his own rules 126

Amusing illustrations from his remarks on "Montezuma's Dinner" 126-128

The reaction against uncritical and exaggerated statements was often carried too far by Mr. Morgan 128, 129

Great importance of the middle period of barbarism 130

The Mexicans compared with the Mayas 131-133

Maya hieroglyphic writing 132

Ruined cities of Central America 134-138

They are probably not older than the twelfth century 136

Recent discovery of the Chronicle of Chicxulub 138

Maya culture very closely related to Mexican 139

The "Mound-Builders" 140-146

The notion that they were like the Aztecs 142

Or, perhaps, like the Zuñis 143

These notions are not well sustained 144

The mounds were probably built by different peoples in the lower status of barbarism, by Cherokees, Shawnees, and other tribes 144, 145

It is not likely that there was a "race of Mound Builders" 146

Society in America at the time of the Discovery had reached stages similar to stages reached by eastern Mediterranean peoples fifty or sixty centuries earlier 146, 147

ГЛАВА II. ДОКОЛУМБОВЫ ПЛАВАНИЯ.

Stories of voyages to America before Columbus; the Chinese 148

The Irish. 149

Blowing and drifting; Cousin, of Dieppe 150

These stories are of small value 150

But the case of the Northmen is quite different 151

The Viking exodus from Norway 151, 152

Founding of a colony in Iceland, A. D. 874 153

Icelandic literature 154

Discovery of Greenland, A. D. 876 155, 156

Eric the Red, and his colony in Greenland, A. D. 986 157-161

Voyage of Bjarni Herjulfsson 162

Conversion of the Northmen to Christianity 163

Leif Ericsson's voyage, A. D. 1000; Helluland and Markland 164

Leif's winter in Vinland 165, 166

Voyages of Thorvald and Thorstein 167

Thorfinn Karlsefni, and his unsuccessful attempt to found a colony in Vinland, A. D. 1007-10 167-169

Freydis, and her evil deeds in Vinland, 1011-12 170, 171

Voyage into Baffin's Bay, 1135 172

Description of a Viking ship discovered at Sandefiord, in Norway 173-175

To what extent the climate of Greenland may have changed within the last thousand years 176, 177

With the Northmen once in Greenland, the discovery of the American continent was inevitable 178

Ear-marks of truth in the Icelandic narratives 179, 180

Northern limit of the vine 181

Length of the winter day 182

Indian corn 182, 183

Winter weather in Vinland 184

Vinland was probably situated somewhere between Cape Breton and Point Judith 185

Further ear-marks of truth; savages and barbarians of the lower status were unknown to mediæval Europeans 185, 186

The natives of Vinland as described in the Icelandic narratives 187-193

Meaning of the epithet "Skrælings" 188, 189

Personal appearance of the Skrælings 189

The Skrælings of Vinland were Indians,—very likely Algonquins 190

The "balista" or "demon's head" 191, 192

The story of the "uniped" 193

Character of the Icelandic records; misleading associations with the word "saga" 194

The comparison between Leif Ericsson and Agamemnon, made by a committee of the Massachusetts Historical Society, was peculiarly unfortunate and inappropriate 194, 197

The story of the Trojan War, in the shape in which we find it in Greek poetry, is pure folk-lore 195

The Saga of Eric the Red is not folk-lore 196

Mythical and historical sagas 197

The western or Hauks-bók version of Eric the Red's Saga 198

The northern or Flateyar-bók version 199

Presumption against sources not contemporary 200

Hauk Erlendsson and his manuscripts 201

The story is not likely to have been preserved to Hauk's time by oral tradition only 202

Allusions to Vinland in other Icelandic documents 202-207

Eyrbyggja Saga 203

The abbot Nikulas, etc. 204

Ari Fródhi and his works 204

His significant allusion to Vinland 205

Other references 206

Differences between Hauks-bók and Flateyar-bók versions 207

Adam of Bremen 208

Importance of his testimony 209

His misconception of the situation of Vinland 210

Summary of the argument 211-213

Absurd speculations of zealous antiquarians 213-215

The Dighton inscription was made by Algonquins, and has nothing to do with the Northmen 213, 214

Governor Arnold's stone windmill 215

There is no reason for supposing that the Northmen founded a colony in Vinland 216

No archæological remains of them have been found south of Davis strait 217

If the Northmen had founded a successful colony, they would have introduced domestic cattle into the North American fauna 218

And such animals could not have vanished and left no trace of their existence 219, 220

Further fortunes of the Greenland colony 221

Bishop Eric's voyage in search of Vinland, 1121 222

The ship from Markland, 1347 223

The Greenland colony attacked by Eskimos, 1349 224

Queen Margaret's monopoly, and its baneful effects 225

Story of the Venetian brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno 226

Nicolò Zeno wrecked upon one of the Færoe islands 227

He enters the service of Henry Sinclair, Earl of the Orkneys and Caithness 228

Nicolò's voyage to Greenland, cir. 1394 229

Voyage of Earl Sinclair and Antonio Zeno 229, 230

Publication of the remains of the documents by the younger Nicolò Zeno, 1558 231

The Zeno map 232, 233

Queer transformations of names 234-236

The name Færoislander became Frislanda 236

The narrative nowhere makes a claim to the "discovery of America" 237

The "Zichmni" of the narrative means Henry Sinclair 238

Bardsen's "Description of Greenland" 239

The monastery of St. Olaus and its hot spring 240

Volcanoes of the north Atlantic ridge 241

Fate of Gunnbjörn's Skerries, 1456 242

Volcanic phenomena in Greenland 242, 243

Estotiland 244

Drogio 245

Inhabitants of Drogio and the countries beyond 246

The Fisherman's return to Frislanda 247

Was the account of Drogio woven into the narrative by the younger Nicolò? 248

Or does it represent actual experiences in North America? 249

The case of David Ingram, 1568 250

The case of Cabeza de Vaca, 1528-36 251

There may have been unrecorded instances of visits to North America 252

The pre-Columbian voyages made no real contributions to geographical knowledge 253

And were in no true sense a discovery of America 254

Real contact between the eastern and western hemisphere was first established by Columbus 255

ГЛАВА III. ЕВРОПА И КИТАЙ.

Why the voyages of the Northmen were not followed up 256

Ignorance of their geographical significance 257

Lack of instruments for ocean navigation 257

Condition of Europe in the year 1000 258, 259

It was not such as to favour colonial enterprise 260

The outlook of Europe was toward Asia 261

Routes of trade between Europe and Asia 262

Claudius Ptolemy and his knowledge of the earth 263

Early mention of China 264

The monk Cosmas Indicopleustes 265

Shape of the earth, according to Cosmas 266, 267

His knowledge of Asia 268

The Nestorians 268

Effects of the Saracen conquests 269

Constantinople in the twelfth century 270

The Crusades 270-274

Barbarizing character of Turkish conquest 271

General effects of the Crusades 272

The Fourth Crusade 273

Rivalry between Venice and Genoa 274

Centres and routes of mediæval trade 275, 276

Effects of the Mongol conquests 277

Cathay, origin of the name 277

Carpini and Rubruquis 278

First knowledge of an eastern ocean beyond Cathay 278

The data were thus prepared for Columbus; but as yet nobody reasoned from these data to a practical conclusion 279

The Polo brothers 280

Kublai Khan's message to the Pope 281

Marco Polo and his travels in Asia 281, 282

First recorded voyage of Europeans around the Indo-Chinese peninsula 282

Return of the Polos to Venice 283

Marco Polo's book, written in prison at Genoa, 1299; its great contributions to geographical knowledge 284, 285

Prester John 285

Griffins and Arimaspians 286

The Catalan map, 1375 288, 289

Other visits to China 287-291

Overthrow of the Mongol dynasty, and shutting up of China 291

First rumours of the Molucca islands and Japan 292

The accustomed routes of Oriental trade were cut off in the fifteenth century by the Ottoman Turks 293

Necessity for finding an "outside route to the Indies" 294

ГЛАВА IV. ПОИСКИ ИНДИИ. ВОСТОЧНЫЙ ИЛИ ПОРТУГАЛЬСКИЙ МАРШРУТ.

Question as to whether Asia could be reached by sailing around Africa 295

Views of Eratosthenes 296

Opposing theory of Ptolemy 297

Story of the Phœnician voyage in the time of Necho 298-300

Voyage of Hanno 300, 301

Voyages of Sataspes and Eudoxus 302

Wild exaggerations 303

Views of Pomponius Mela 304, 305

Ancient theory of the five zones 306, 307

The Inhabited World, or Œcumene, and the Antipodes 308

Curious notions about Taprobane (Ceylon) 309

Question as to the possibility of crossing the torrid zone 309

Notions about sailing "up and down hill" 310, 311

Superstitious fancies 311, 312

Clumsiness of ships in the fifteenth century 312

Dangers from famine and scurvy 313

The mariner's compass; an interesting letter from Brunetto Latini to Guido Cavalcanti 313-315

Calculating latitudes and longitudes 315

Prince Henry the Navigator 316-326

His idea of an ocean route to the Indies, and what it might bring 318

The Sacred Promontory 319

The Madeira and Canary islands 320-322

Gil Eannes passes Cape Bojador 323

Beginning of the modern slave-trade, 1442 323

Papal grant of heathen countries to the Portuguese crown 324, 325

Advance to Sierra Leone 326

Advance to the Hottentot coast 326, 327

Note upon the extent of European acquaintance with savagery and the lower forms of barbarism previous to the fifteenth century 327-329

Effect of the Portuguese discoveries upon the theories of Ptolemy and Mela 329, 330

News of Prester John; Covilham's journey 331

Bartholomew Dias passes the Cape of Good Hope and enters the Indian ocean 332

Some effects of this discovery 333

Bartholomew Columbus took part in it 333

Connection between these voyages and the work of Christopher Columbus 334

ГЛАВА V. ПОИСКИ ИНДИИ. ЗАПАДНЫЙ ИЛИ ИСПАНСКИЙ МАРШРУТ.

Sources of information concerning the life of Columbus; Las Casas and Ferdinand Columbus 335

The Biblioteca Colombina at Seville 336, 337

Bernaldez and Peter Martyr 338

Letters of Columbus 338

Defects in Ferdinand's information 339, 340

Researches of Henry Harrisse 341

Date of the birth of Columbus; archives of Savona 342

Statement of Bernaldez 343

Columbus's letter of September, 1501 344

The balance of probability is in favour of 1436 345

The family of Domenico Colombo, and its changes of residence 346, 347

Columbus tells us that he was born in the city of Genoa 348

His early years 349-351

Christopher and his brother Bartholomew at Lisbon 351, 352

Philippa Moñiz de Perestrelo 352

Personal appearance of Columbus 353

His marriage, and life upon the island of Porto Santo 353, 354

The king of Portugal asks advice of the great astronomer Toscanelli 355

Toscanelli's first letter to Columbus 356-361

His second letter to Columbus 361, 362

Who first suggested the feasibleness of a westward route to the Indies? Was it Columbus? 363

Perhaps it was Toscanelli 363, 364

Note on the date of Toscanelli's first letter to Columbus 365-367

The idea, being naturally suggested by the globular form of the earth, was as old as Aristotle 368, 369

Opinions of ancient writers 370

Opinions of Christian writers 371

The "Imago Mundi" of Petrus Alliacus 372, 373

Ancient estimates of the size of the globe and the length of the Œcumene 374

Toscanelli's calculation of the size of the earth, and of the position of Japan (Cipango) 375, 376

Columbus's opinions of the size of the globe, the length of the Œcumene, and the width of the Atlantic ocean from Portugal to Japan 377-380

There was a fortunate mixture of truth and error in these opinions of Columbus 381

The whole point and purport of Columbus's scheme lay in its promise of a route to the Indies shorter than that which the Portuguese were seeking by way of Guinea 381

Columbus's speculations on climate; his voyages to Guinea and into the Arctic ocean 382

He may have reached Jan Mayen island, and stopped at Iceland 383, 384

The Scandinavian hypothesis that Columbus "must have" heard and understood the story of the Vinland voyages 384, 385

It has not a particle of evidence in its favour 385

It is not probable that Columbus knew of Adam of Bremen's allusion to Vinland, or that he would have understood it if he had read it 386

It is doubtful if he would have stumbled upon the story in Iceland 387

If he had heard it, he would probably have classed it with such tales as that of St. Brandan's isle 388

He could not possibly have obtained from such a source his opinion of the width of the ocean 388, 389

If he had known and understood the Vinland story, he had the strongest motives for proclaiming it and no motive whatever for concealing it 390-392

No trace of a thought of Vinland appears in any of his voyages 393

Why did not Norway or Iceland utter a protest in 1493? 393

The idea of Vinland was not associated with the idea of America until the seventeenth century 394

Recapitulation of the genesis of Columbus's scheme 395

Martin Behaim's improved astrolabe 395, 396

Negotiations of Columbus with John II. of Portugal 396, 397

The king is persuaded into a shabby trick 398

Columbus leaves Portugal and enters into the service of Ferdinand and Isabella, 1486 398-400

The junto at Salamanca, 1486 401

Birth of Ferdinand Columbus, August 15, 1488 401

Bartholomew Columbus returns from the Cape of Good Hope, December, 1487 402, 403

Christopher visits Bartholomew at Lisbon, cir. September, 1488, and sends him to England 404

Bartholomew, after mishaps, reaches England cir. February, 1490, and goes thence to France before 1492 405-407

The duke of Medina-Celi proposes to furnish the ships for Columbus, but the queen withholds her consent 408, 409

Columbus makes up his mind to get his family together and go to France, October, 1491 409, 410

A change of fortune; he stops at La Rábida, and meets the prior Juan Perez, who writes to the queen 411

Columbus is summoned back to court 411

The junto before Granada, December, 1491 412, 413

Surrender of Granada, January 2, 1492 414

Columbus negotiates with the queen, who considers his terms exorbitant 414-416

Interposition of Luis de Santangel 416

Agreement between Columbus and the sovereigns 417

Cost of the voyage 418

Dismay at Palos 419

The three famous caravels 420

Delay at the Canary islands 421

Martin Behaim and his globe 422, 423

Columbus starts for Japan, September 6, 1492 424

Terrors of the voyage:—1. Deflection of the needle 425

2. The Sargasso sea 426, 427

3. The trade wind 428

Impatience of the crews 428

Change of course from W. to W. S. W 429, 430

Discovery of land, October 12, 1492 431

Guanahani: which of the Bahama islands was it? 432

Groping for Cipango and the route to Quinsay 433, 434

Columbus reaches Cuba, and sends envoys to find a certain Asiatic prince 434, 435

He turns eastward and Pinzon deserts him 435

Columbus arrives at Hayti and thinks it must be Japan 436

His flag-ship is wrecked, and he decides to go back to Spain 437

Building of the blockhouse, La Navidad 438

Terrible storm in mid-ocean on the return voyage 439

Cold reception at the Azores 440

Columbus is driven ashore in Portugal, where the king is advised to have him assassinated 440

But to offend Spain so grossly would be imprudent 441

Arrival of Columbus and Pinzon at Palos; death of Pinzon 442

Columbus is received by the sovereigns at Barcelona 443, 444

General excitement at the news that a way to the Indies had been found 445

This voyage was an event without any parallel in history 446

ГЛАВА VI. ОБРЕТЕНИЕ НЕИЗВЕСТНЫХ БЕРЕГОВ.

The Discovery of America was a gradual process 447, 448

The letters of Columbus to Santangel and to Sanchez 449

Versification of the story by Giuliano Dati 450

Earliest references to the discovery 451

The earliest reference in English 452

The Portuguese claim to the Indies 453

Bulls of Pope Alexander VI. 454-458

The treaty of Tordesillas 459

Juan Rodriguez Fonseca, and his relations with Columbus 460-462

Friar Boyle 462

Notable persons who embarked on the second voyage 463

Departure from Cadiz 464

Cruise among the Cannibal (Caribbee) islands 465

Fate of the colony at La Navidad 466

Building the town of Isabella 467

Exploration of Cibao 467, 468

Westward cruise; Cape Alpha and Omega 468-470

Discovery of Jamaica 471

Coasting the south side of Cuba 472

The "people of Mangon" 473

Speculations concerning the Golden Chersonese 474-476

A solemn expression of opinion 477

Vicissitudes of theory 477, 478

Arrival of Bartholomew Columbus in Hispaniola 478, 479

Mutiny in Hispaniola; desertion of Boyle and Margarite 479, 480

The government of Columbus was not tyrannical 481

Troubles with the Indians 481, 482

Mission of Juan Aguado 482

Discovery of gold mines, and speculations about Ophir 483

Founding of San Domingo, 1496 484

The return voyage to Spain 485

Edicts of 1495 and 1497 486, 487

Vexatious conduct of Fonseca; Columbus loses his temper 487

Departure from San Lucar on the third voyage 488

The belt of calms 489-491

Trinidad and the Orinoco 491, 492

Speculations as to the earth's shape; the mountain of Paradise 494

Relation of the "Eden continent" to "Cochin China" 495

Discovery of the Pearl Coast 495

Columbus arrives at San Domingo 496

Roldan's rebellion and Fonseca's machinations 496, 497

Gama's voyage to Hindustan, 1497 498

Fonseca's creature, Bobadilla, sent to investigate the troubles in Hispaniola 499

He imprisons Columbus 500

And sends him in chains to Spain 501

Release of Columbus; his interview with the sovereigns 502

How far were the sovereigns responsible for Bobadilla? 503

Ovando, another creature of Fonseca, appointed governor of Hispaniola 503, 504

Purpose of Columbus's fourth voyage, to find a passage from the Caribbee waters into the Indian ocean 504, 506

The voyage across the Atlantic 506

Columbus not allowed to stop at San Domingo 507

His arrival at Cape Honduras 508

Cape Gracias a Dios, and the coast of Veragua 509

Fruitless search for the strait of Malacca 510

Futile attempt to make a settlement in Veragua 511

Columbus is shipwrecked on the coast of Jamaica; shameful conduct of Ovando 512

Columbus's last return to Spain 513

His death at Valladolid, May 20, 1506 513

"Nuevo Mundo;" arms of Ferdinand Columbus 514, 515

When Columbus died, the fact that a New World had been discovered by him had not yet begun to dawn upon his mind, or upon the mind of any voyager or any writer 515, 516

ИЛЛЮСТРАЦИИ

page

Portrait of the author Frontispiece

View and ground-plan of Seneca-Iroquois long house reduced from Morgan's Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines 66

View, cross-section, and ground-plan of Mandan round house, ditto 80

Ground-plan of Pueblo Hungo Pavie, ditto 86

Restoration of Pueblo Hungo Pavie, ditto 88

Restoration of Pueblo Bonito, ditto 90

Ground-plan of Pueblo Peñasca Blanca, ditto 92

Ground-plan of so-called "House of the Nuns" at Uxmal, ditto 133

Map of the East Bygd, or eastern settlement of the Northmen in Greenland, reduced from Rafn's Antiquitates Americanæ 160, 161

Ruins of the church at Kakortok, from Major's Voyages of the Zeni, published by the Hakluyt Society 222

Zeno Map, cir. 1400, ditto 232, 233

Map of the World according to Claudius Ptolemy, cir. A. D. 150, an abridged sketch after a map in Bunbury's History of Ancient Geography Facing 265

Two sheets of the Catalan Map, 1375, from Yule's Cathay, published by the Hakluyt Society 288, 289

Map of the World according to Pomponius Mela, cir. A. D. 50, from Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America 304

Map illustrating Portuguese voyages on the coast of Africa, from a sketch by the author 324

Toscanelli's Map, 1474, redrawn and improved from a sketch in Winsor's America Facing 357

Annotations by Columbus, reduced from a photograph in Harrisse's Notes on Columbus 373

Sketch of Martin Behaim's Globe, 1492, preserved in the city hall at Nuremberg, reduced to Mercator's projection and sketched by the author 422, 423

Sketch of Martin Behaim's Atlantic Ocean, with outline of the American continent superimposed, from Winsor's America 429

Map of the discoveries made by Columbus in his first and second voyages, sketched by the author 469

Map of the discoveries made by Columbus in his third and fourth voyages, ditto 493

Arms of Ferdinand Columbus, from the title-page of Harrisse's Fernand Colomb 515

КРИТИЧЕСКИЙ ПЕРИОД АМЕРИКАНСКОЙ ИСТОРИИ 1783–1789

Джон Фиске

«Я встревожен и полон опасений, даже больше, чем во время войны». Джей — Вашингтону, 27 июня 1786 г.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

RESULTS OF YORKTOWN.

PAGE

Fall of Lord North's ministry

1

Sympathy between British Whigs and the revolutionary party in America

2

It weakened the Whig party in England

3

Character of Lord Shelburne

4

Political instability of the Rockingham ministry

5, 6

Obstacles in the way of a treaty of peace

7, 8

Oswald talks with Franklin

9–11

Grenville has an interview with Vergennes

12

Effects of Rodney's victory

13

Misunderstanding between Fox and Shelburne

14

Fall of the Rockingham ministry

15

Shelburne becomes prime minister

16

Defeat of the Spaniards and French at Gibraltar

17

French policy opposed to American interests

18

The valley of the Mississippi; Aranda's prophecy

19

The Newfoundland fisheries

20

Jay detects the schemes of Vergennes

21

And sends Dr Vaughan to visit Shelburne

22

John Adams arrives in Paris and joins with Jay in insisting upon a separate negotiation with England

23, 24

The separate American treaty, as agreed upon:

1. Boundaries

25

2. Fisheries; commercial intercourse

26

3. Private debts

27

4. Compensation of loyalists

28–32

Secret article relating to the Yazoo boundary

33

Vergennes does not like the way in which it has been done

33

On the part of the Americans it was a great diplomatic victory

34

Which the commissioners won by disregarding the instructions of Congress and acting on their own responsibility

35

The Spanish treaty

36

The French treaty

37

Coalition of Fox with North

38–42

They attack the American treaty in Parliament

43

And compel Shelburne to resign

44

Which leaves England without a government, while for several weeks the king is too angry to appoint ministers

44

Until at length he succumbs to the coalition, which presently adopts and ratifies the American treaty

45

The coalition ministry is wrecked upon Fox's India Bill

46

Constitutional crisis ends in the overwhelming victory of Pitt in the elections of May, 1784

47

And this, although apparently a triumph for the king, was really a death-blow to his system of personal government

48, 49

CHAPTER II.

THE THIRTEEN COMMONWEALTHS.

Cessation of hostilities in America

50

Departure of the British troops

51

Washington resigns his command

52

And goes home to Mount Vernon

53

His "legacy" to the American people

54

The next five years were the most critical years in American history

55

Absence of a sentiment of union, and consequent danger of anarchy

56, 57

European statesmen, whether hostile or friendly, had little faith in the stability of the Union

58

False historic analogies

59

Influence of railroad and telegraph upon the perpetuity of the Union

60

Difficulty of travelling a hundred years ago

61

Local jealousies and antipathies, an inheritance from primeval savagery

62, 63

Conservative character of the American Revolution

64

State governments remodelled; assemblies continued from colonial times

65

Origin of the senates in the governor's council of assistants

66

Governors viewed with suspicion

67

Analogies with British institutions

68

The judiciary

69

Restrictions upon suffrage

70

Abolition of primogeniture, entails, and manorial privileges

71

Steps toward the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade

72–75

Progress toward religious freedom

76, 77

Church and state in Virginia

78, 79

Persecution of dissenters

80

Madison and the Religions Freedom Act

81

Temporary overthrow of the church

82

Difficulties in regard to ordination; the case of Mason Weems

83

Ordination of Samuel Seabury by non-jurors at Aberdeen

84

Francis Asbury and the Methodists

85

Presbyterians and Congregationalists

86

Roman Catholics

87

Except in the instance of slavery, all the changes described in this chapter were favourable to the union of the states

88

But while the state governments, in all these changes, are seen working smoothly, we have next to observe, by contrast, the clumsiness and inefficiency of the federal government

89

CHAPTER III.

THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDSHIP.

The several states have never enjoyed complete sovereignty

90

But in the very act of severing their connection with Great Britain, they entered into some sort of union

91

Anomalous character of the Continental Congress

92

The articles of confederation; they sought to establish a "league of friendship" between the states

93–97

But failed to create a federal government endowed with real sovereignty

98–100

Military weakness of the government

101–103

Extreme difficulty of obtaining a revenue

104, 105

Congress, being unable to pay the army, was afraid of it

106

Supposed scheme for making Washington king

107

Greene's experience in South Carolina

108

Gates's staff officers and the Newburgh address

109

The danger averted by Washington

110, 111

Congress driven from Philadelphia by mutinous soldiers

112

The Commutation Act denounced in New England

113

Order of the Cincinnati

114–117

Reasons for the dread which it inspired

118

Congress finds itself unable to carry out the provisions of the treaty with Great Britain

119

Persecution of the loyalists

120, 121

It was especially severe in New York

122

Trespass Act of 1784 directed against the loyalists

123

Character and early career of Alexander Hamilton

124–126

The case of Rutgers v. Waddington

127, 128

Wholesale emigration of Tories

129, 130

Congress unable to enforce payment of debts to British creditors

131

England retaliates by refusing to surrender the fortresses on the northwestern frontier

132, 133

CHAPTER IV.

DRIFTING TOWARD ANARCHY.

The barbarous superstitions of the Middle Ages concerning trade were still rife in the eighteenth century

134

The old theory of the uses of a colony

135

Pitt's unsuccessful attempt to secure free trade between Great Britain and the United States

136

Ship-building in New England

137

British navigation acts and orders in council directed against American commerce

138

John Adams tried in vain to negotiate a commercial treaty with Great Britain

139, 140

And could see no escape from the difficulties except in systematic reprisal

141

But any such reprisal was impracticable, for the several states imposed conflicting duties

142

Attempts to give Congress the power of regulating commerce were unsuccessful

143, 144

And the several states began to make commercial war upon one another

145

Attempts of New York to oppress New Jersey and Connecticut

146

Retaliatory measures of the two latter states

147

The quarrel between Connecticut and Pennsylvania over the possession of the valley of Wyoming

148–150

The quarrel between New York and New Hampshire over the possession of the Green Mountains

151–153

Failure of American diplomacy because European states could not tell whether they were dealing with one nation or with thirteen

154, 155

Failure of American credit; John Adams begging in Holland

156, 157

The Barbary pirates

158

American citizens kidnapped and sold into slavery

159

Lord Sheffield's outrageous pamphlet

160

Tripoli's demand for blackmail

161

Congress unable to protect American citizens

162

Financial distress after the Revolutionary War

163, 164

State of the coinage

165

Cost of the war in money

166

Robert Morris and his immense services

167

The craze for paper money

168

Agitation in the southern and middle states

169–171

Distress in New England

172

Imprisonment for debt

173

Rag-money victorious in Rhode Island; the "Know Ye" measures

174–176

Rag-money defeated in Massachusetts; the Shays insurrection

177–181

The insurrection suppressed by state troops

182

Conduct of the neighbouring states

183

The rebels pardoned

184

Timidity of Congress

185, 186

CHAPTER V.

GERMS OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY.

Creation of a national domain beyond the Alleghanies

187, 188

Conflicting claims to the western territory

189

Claims of Massachusetts and Connecticut

189, 190

Claims of New York

190

Virginia's claims

191

Maryland's novel and beneficent suggestion

192

The several states yield their claims in favour of the United States

193, 194

Magnanimity of Virginia

195

Jefferson proposes a scheme of government for the northwestern territory

196

Names of the proposed ten states

197

Jefferson wishes to prohibit slavery in the national domain

198

North Carolina's cession of western lands

199

John Sevier and the state of Franklin

200, 201

The northwestern territory

202

Origin of the Ohio company

203

The Ordinance of 1787

204–206

Theory of folkland upon which the ordinance was based

207

Spain, hearing of the secret article in the treaty of 1783, loses her temper and threatens to shut up the Mississippi River

208, 209

Gardoqui and Jay

210

Threats of secession in Kentucky and New England

211

Washington's views on the political importance of canals between east and west

212

His far-sighted genius and self-devotion

213

Maryland confers with Virginia regarding the navigation of the Potomac

214

The Madison-Tyler motion in the Virginia legislature

215

Convention at Annapolis, Sept 11, 1786

216

Hamilton's address calling for a convention at Philadelphia

217

The impost amendment defeated by the action of New York; last ounce upon the camel's back

218–220

Sudden changes in popular sentiment

221

The Federal Convention meets at Philadelphia, May, 1787

222

Mr. Gladstone's opinion of the work of the convention

223

The men who were assembled there

224, 225

Character of James Madison

226, 227

The other leading members

228

Washington chosen president of the convention

229

CHAPTER VI.

THE FEDERAL CONVENTION.

Why the proceedings of the convention were kept secret for so many years

230

Difficulty of the problem to be solved

231

Symptoms of cowardice repressed by Washington's impassioned speech

232

The root of all the difficulties; the edicts of the federal government had operated only upon states, not upon individuals, and therefore could not be enforced without danger of war

233–233

The Virginia plan, of which Madison was the chief author, offered a radical cure

236

And was felt to be revolutionary in its character

237–239

Fundamental features of the Virginia plan

240, 241

How it was at first received

242

The House of Representatives must be directly elected by the people

243

Question as to the representation of states brings out the antagonism between large and small states

244

William Paterson presents the New Jersey plan; not a radical cure, but a feeble palliative

245

Straggle between the Virginia and New Jersey plans

246–249

The Connecticut compromise, according to which the national principle is to prevail in the House of Representatives, and the federal principle in the Senate, meets at first with fierce opposition

250, 251

But is at length adopted

252

And proves a decisive victory for Madison and his methods

253

A few irreconcilable members go home in dudgeon

254

But the small states, having been propitiated, are suddenly converted to Federalism, and make the victory complete

255

Vague dread of the future west

255

The struggle between pro-slavery and anti-slavery parties began in the convention, and was quieted by two compromises

256

Should representation be proportioned to wealth or to population?

257

Were slaves to be reckoned as persons or as chattels?

258

Attitude of the Virginia statesmen

259

It was absolutely necessary to satisfy South Carolina

260

The three fifths compromise, suggested by Madison, was a genuine English solution, if ever there was one

261

There was neither rhyme nor reason in it, but for all that, it was the best solution attainable at the time

262

The next compromise was between New England and South Carolina as to the foreign slave-trade and the power of the federal government over commerce

263

George Mason calls the slave-trade an "infernal traffic"

264

And the compromise offends and alarms Virginia

265

Belief in the moribund condition of slavery

266

The foundations of the Constitution were laid in compromise

267

Powers granted to the federal government

268

Use of federal troops in suppressing insurrections

269

Various federal powers

270

Provision for a federal city under federal jurisdiction

271

The Federal Congress might compel the attendance of members

272

Powers denied to the several states

272

Should the federal government he allowed to make its promissory notes a legal tender in payment of debts? powerful speech of Gouverneur Morris

273

Emphatic and unmistakable condemnation of paper money by all the leading delegates

274

The convention refused to grant to the federal government the power of issuing inconvertible paper, but did not think an express prohibition necessary

275

If they could have foreseen some recent judgments of the supreme court, they would doubtless have made the prohibition explicit and absolute

276

Debates as to the federal executive

277

Sherman's suggestion as to the true relation of the executive to the legislature

278

There was to be a single chief magistrate, but how should he be chosen?

279

Objections to an election by Congress

280

Ellsworth and King suggest the device of an electoral college, which is at first rejected

281

But afterwards adopted

282

Provisions for an election by Congress in the case of a failure of choice by the electoral college

283

Provisions for counting the electoral votes

284

It was not intended to leave anything to be decided by the president of the Senate

285

The convention foresaw imaginary dangers, but not the real ones

286

Hamilton's opinion of the electoral scheme

287

How it has actually worked

288

In this part of its work the convention tried to copy from the British Constitution

289

In which they supposed the legislative and executive departments to be distinct and separate

290

Here they were misled by Montesquieu and Blackstone

291

What our government would be if it were really like that of Great Britain

292–294

In the British government the executive department is not separated from the legislative

295

Circumstances which obscured the true aspect of the case a century ago

296–298

The American cabinet is analogous, not to the British cabinet, but to the privy council

299

The federal judiciary, and its remarkable character

300–301

Provisions for amending the Constitution

302

The document is signed by all but three of the delegates

303

And the convention breaks up

304

With a pleasant remark from Franklin

305

CHAPTER VII.

CROWNING THE WORK.

Franklin lays the Constitution before the legislature of Pennsylvania

306

It is submitted to Congress, which refers it to the legislatures of the thirteen states, to be ratified or rejected by the people in conventions

307

First American parties, Federalists and Antifederalists

308, 309

The contest in Pennsylvania

310

How to make a quorum

311

A war of pamphlets and newspaper squibs

312, 313

Ending in the ratification of the Constitution by Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey

314

Rejoicings and mutterings

315

Georgia and Connecticut ratify

316

The outlook in Massachusetts

317, 318

The Massachusetts convention meets

319

And overhauls the Constitution clause by clause

320

On the subject of an army Mr. Nason waxes eloquent

321

The clergymen oppose a religious test

322

And Rev. Samuel West argues on the assumption that all men are not totally depraved

323

Feeling of distrust in the mountain districts

324

Timely speech of a Berkshire farmer

325, 326

Attitude of Samuel Adams

326, 327

Meeting of mechanics at the Green Dragon

327

Charges of bribery

328

Washington's fruitful suggestion

329

Massachusetts ratifies, but proposes amendments

330

The Long Lane has a turning and becomes Federal Street

331

New Hampshire hesitates, but Maryland ratifies, and all eyes are turned upon South Carolina

332

Objections of Rawlins Lowndes answered by Cotesworth Pinckney

333

South Carolina ratifies the Constitution

334

Important effect upon Virginia, where thoughts of a southern confederacy had been entertained

335, 336

Madison and Marshall prevail in the Virginia convention, and it ratifies the Constitution

337

New Hampshire had ratified four days before

338

Rejoicings at Philadelphia; riots at Providence and Albany

339

The struggle in New York

340

Origin of the "Federalist"

341–343

Hamilton wins the victory, and New York ratifies

344

All serious anxiety is now at an end; the laggard states, North Carolina and Rhode Island

345

First presidential election, January 7, 1789; Washington is unanimously chosen

346

Why Samuel Adams was not selected for vice-president

347

Selection of John Adams

348

Washington's journey to New York, April 16–23

349

His inauguration

350

ЧЕРЕЗ ПРИРОДУ К БОГУ

Джон Фиске

CONTENTS

The Mystery of Evil

I.

The Serpent's Promise to the Woman

3

II.

The Pilgrim's Burden

8

III.

Manichæism and Calvinism

14

IV.

The Dramatic Unity of Nature

22

V.

What Conscious Life is made of

27

VI.

Without the Element of Antagonism there could be no Consciousness, and therefore no World

34

VII.

A Word of Caution

40

VIII.

The Hermit and the Angel

43

IX.

Man's Rise from the Innocence of Brutehood

48

X.

The Relativity of Evil

54

The Cosmic Roots of Love and Self-Sacrifice

I.

The Summer Field, and what it tells us

59

II.

Seeming Wastefulness of the Cosmic Process

65

III.

Caliban's Philosophy

72

IV.

Can it be that the Cosmic Process has no Relation to Moral Ends?

74

V.

First Stages in the Genesis of Man

80

VI.

The Central Fact in the Genesis of Man

86

VII.

The Chief Cause of Man's lengthened Infancy

88

VIII.

Some of its Effects

96

IX.

Origin of Moral Ideas and Sentiments

102

X.

The Cosmic Process exists purely for the Sake of Moral Ends

109

XI.

Maternity and the Evolution of Altruism

117

XII.

The Omnipresent Ethical Trend

127

The Everlasting Reality of Religion

I.

Deo erexit Voltaire

133

II.

The Reign of Law, and the Greek Idea of God

147

III.

Weakness of Materialism

152

IV.

Religion's First Postulate: the Quasi-Human God

163

V.

Religion's Second Postulate: the undying Human Soul

168

VI.

Religion's Third Postulate: the Ethical Significance of the Unseen World

171

VII.

Is the Substance of Religion a Phantom, or an Eternal Reality?

174

VIII.

The Fundamental Aspect of Life

177

IX.

How the Evolution of Senses expands the World

182

X.

Nature's Eternal Lesson is the Everlasting Reality of Religion

186

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CONTENTS

PAGE

I. A Century of Science

1

II. The Doctrine of Evolution: its Scope and Purport

39

III. Edward Livingston Youmans

64

IV. The Part played by Infancy in the Evolution of Man

100

V. The Origins of Liberal Thought in America

122

VI. Sir Harry Vane

154

VII. The Arbitration Treaty

166

VIII. Francis Parkman

194

IX. Edward Augustus Freeman

265

X. Cambridge as Village and City

286

XI. A Harvest of Irish Folk-Lore

319

XII. Guessing at Half and Multiplying by Two

333

XIII. Forty Years of Bacon-Shakespeare Folly

350

XIV. Some Cranks and their Crotchets

405

Note

461

Index

467

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

THE BEGINNINGS

PAGE

Relations between the American colonies and the British government in the first half of the eighteenth century

1

The Lords of Trade

2

The governors’ salaries

3

Sir Robert Walpole

4

Views of the Lords of Trade as to the need for a union of the colonies

5

Weakness of the sentiment of union

6

The Albany Congress

6

Franklin’s plan for a federal union (1754)

7, 8

Rejection of Franklin’s plan

9

Shirley recommends a stamp act

10

The writs of assistance

11

The chief justice of New York

12

Otis’s “Vindication”

13

Expenses of the French War

14

Grenville’s resolves

15

Reply of the colonies

16

Passage of the Stamp Act

17

Patrick Henry and the Parsons’ Cause

18

Resolutions of Virginia concerning the Stamp Act

19, 20

The Stamp Act Congress

20-22

Declaration of the Massachusetts assembly

22

Resistance to the Stamp Act in Boston

23

And in New York

24

Debate in the House of Commons

25, 26

Repeal of the Stamp Act

26, 27

The Duke of Grafton’s ministry

28

Charles Townshend and his revenue acts

29-31

Attack upon the New York assembly

32

Parliament did not properly represent the British people

32, 33

Difficulty of the problem

34

Representation of Americans in Parliament

35

Mr. Gladstone and the Boers

36

Death of Townshend

37

His political legacy to George III.

37

Character of George III.

38, 39

English parties between 1760 and 1784

40, 41

George III. as a politician

42

His chief reason for quarrelling with the Americans

42, 43

CHAPTER II

THE CRISIS

Character of Lord North

44

John Dickinson and the “Farmer’s Letters”

45

The Massachusetts circular letter

46, 47

Lord Hillsborough’s instructions to Bernard

48

The “Illustrious Ninety-Two”

48

Impressment of citizens

49

Affair of the sloop Liberty

49-51

Statute of Henry VIII. concerning “treason committed abroad”

52

Samuel Adams makes up his mind (1768)

53-56

Arrival of troops in Boston

56, 57

Letters of “Vindex”

58

Debate in Parliament

59, 60

All the Townshend acts, except the one imposing a duty upon tea, to be repealed

61

Recall of Governor Bernard

61

Character of Thomas Hutchinson

62

Resolutions of Virginia concerning the Townshend acts

63

Conduct of the troops in Boston

64

Assault on James Otis

64

The “Boston Massacre”

65-68

Some of its lessons

69-72

Lord North becomes prime minister

72

Action of the New York merchants

73

Assemblies convened in strange places

74

Taxes in Maryland

74

The “Regulators” in North Carolina

74

Affair of the schooner Gaspee

75, 76

The salaries of the Massachusetts judges

76

Jonathan Mayhew’s suggestion (1766)

77

The committees of correspondence in Massachusetts

78

Intercolonial committees of correspondence

79

Revival of the question of taxation

80

The king’s ingenious scheme for tricking the Americans into buying the East India Company’s tea

81

How Boston became the battle-ground

82

Advice solemnly sought and given by the Massachusetts towns

82-84

Arrival of the tea; meeting at the Old South

84, 85

The tea-ships placed under guard

85

Rotch’s dilatory manœuvres

86

Great town meeting at the Old South

87, 88

The tea thrown into the harbour

88, 89

Moral grandeur of the scene

90, 91

How Parliament received the news

91-93

The Boston Port Bill

93

The Regulating Act

93-95

Act relating to the shooting of citizens

96

The quartering of troops in towns

96

The Quebec Act

96

General Gage sent to Boston

97, 98

CHAPTER III

THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

Protest of the Whig Lords

99

Belief that the Americans would not fight

100

Belief that Massachusetts would not be supported by the other colonies

101

News of the Port Bill

101, 102

Samuel Adams at Salem

103, 104

Massachusetts nullifies the Regulating Act

105

John Hancock and Joseph Warren

106, 107

The Suffolk County Resolves

108

Provincial Congress in Massachusetts

109

First meeting of the Continental Congress (September 5, 1774)

110, 111

Debates in Parliament

112, 113

William Howe appointed commander-in-chief of the forces in America

113

Richard, Lord Howe, appointed admiral of the fleet

114

Franklin returns to America

115

State of feeling in the middle colonies

116

Lord North’s mistaken hopes of securing New York

117

Affairs in Massachusetts

101

Dr. Warren’s oration at the Old South

119

Attempt to corrupt Samuel Adams

120

Orders to arrest Adams and Hancock

121

Paul Revere’s ride

122, 123

Pitcairn fires upon the yeomanry at Lexington

124, 125

The troops repulsed at Concord; their dangerous situation

126, 127

The retreating troops rescued by Lord Percy

128

Retreat continued from Lexington to Charlestown

129

Rising of the country; the British besieged in Boston

130

Effects of the news in England and in America

130-133

Mecklenburg County Resolves

133

Legend of the Mecklenburg “Declaration of Independence”

133-135

Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen

135

Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point

136-140

Second meeting of the Continental Congress

141

Appointment of George Washington to command the Continental army

142-144

The siege of Boston

145

Gage’s proclamation

145

The Americans occupy Bunker’s and Breed’s hills

146

Arrival of Putnam, Stark, and Warren

147

Gage decides to try an assault

148, 149

First assault repulsed

149

Second assault repulsed

150

Prescott’s powder gives out

150

Third assault succeeds; the British take the hill

151

British and American losses

151, 152

Excessive slaughter; significance of the battle

153

Its moral effects

154

CHAPTER IV

INDEPENDENCE

Washington’s arrival in Cambridge

155

Continental officers: Daniel Morgan

156

Benedict Arnold, John Stark, John Sullivan

157

Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox

158

Israel Putnam

159

Horatio Gates and Charles Lee

160

Lee’s personal peculiarities

161, 162

Dr. Benjamin Church

163

Difficult work for Washington

164

Absence of governmental organization

165

New government of Massachusetts (July, 1775)

166

Congress sends a last petition to the king

167

The king issues a proclamation, and tries to hire troops from Russia

168-170

Catherine refuses; the king hires German troops

170

Indignation in Germany

171

Burning of Falmouth (Portland)

171

Effects of all this upon Congress

172, 173

Montgomery’s invasion of Canada and capture of Montreal

174, 175

Arnold’s march through the wilderness of Maine

176

Assault upon Quebec (December 31, 1775)

177

Total failure of the attempt upon Canada

178

The siege of Boston

179

Washington seizes Dorchester Heights (March 4, 1776)

180, 181

The British troops evacuate Boston (March 17)

182, 183

Movement toward independence; a provisional flag (January 1, 1776)

184

Effect of the hiring of “myrmidons”

185

Thomas Paine

185

His pamphlet entitled “Common Sense”

186, 187

Fulminations and counter-fulminations

188

The Scots in North Carolina

188

Sir Henry Clinton sails for the Carolinas

189

The fight at Moore’s Creek; North Carolina declares for independence

189

Action of South Carolina and Georgia

190

Affairs in Virginia; Lord Dunmore’s proclamation

190

Skirmish at the Great Bridge, and burning of Norfolk

191

Virginia declares for independence

192

Action of Rhode Island and Massachusetts

192

Resolution adopted in Congress May 15

193

Instructions from the Boston town meeting

194

Richard Henry Lee’s motion in Congress

194

Debate on Lee’s

195, 196

Action of the other colonies; Connecticut and New Hampshire

196

New Jersey

197

Pennsylvania and Delaware

197-199

Maryland

199

The situation in New York

200

The Tryon plot

201

Final debate on Lee’s motion

202

Vote on Lee’s motion

203

Form of the Declaration of Independence

204

Thomas Jefferson

204, 205

The declaration was a deliberate expression of the sober thought of the American people

206, 207

CHAPTER V

FIRST BLOW AT THE CENTRE

Lord Cornwallis arrives upon the scene

208

Battle of Fort Moultrie (June 28, 1776)

209-211

British plan for conquering the valley of the Hudson, and cutting the United Colonies in twain

212

Lord Howe’s futile attempt to negotiate with Washington unofficially

213, 214

The military problem at New York

214-216

Importance of Brooklyn Heights

217

Battle of Long Island (August 27, 1776)

218-220

Howe prepares to besiege the Heights

220

But Washington slips away with his army

221

And robs the British of the most golden opportunity ever offered them

221-223

The conference at Staten Island

223, 224

General Howe takes the city of New York September 15

224

But Mrs. Lindley Murray saves the garrison

225

Attack upon Harlem Heights

225

The new problem before Howe

225, 226

He moves upon Throg’s Neck, but Washington changes base

227

Baffled at White Plans, Howe tries a new plan

228

Washington’s orders in view of the emergency

228

Congress meddles with the situation and muddles it

229

Howe takes Fort Washington by storm (November 16)

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