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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the presentSherwood, John D.

History

The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

Name: The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present
Author: Sherwood, John D.

Sherwood, John D.

United States -- History -- Humor

Governments and states, like pianos, go according to the works
originally put into them. Unlike the grand-action instruments of the
Carolinas, manufactured in the princely factory of Lord Shaftesbury and
John Locke, dissimilar to the violin movement of the New England States,
the banjo airs of Virginia, or “the harp with a thousand strings” set up
in New York, the government of Pennsylvania combined the sweetness of
the æolian harp and the free harmonious breathings of the accordion. And
the music which Penn drew from it was such as “soothed the savage
breast”; for Pennsylvania was the only American settlement which never
heard the whirr of the Indian arrow through her woods, or the sullen
blow of the death-dealing tomahawk in the settler’s hut.

[Illustration:

  PORTRAIT OF PENN.
  (p. 144)
]

To complete the mosaic pavement of our American house, all kinds of
materials seemed necessary. In South Carolina, French Huguenots; in
Georgia, Oglethorpe the loyalist, with loyal settlers; in North
Carolina, English yeomanry; in Virginia, supporters of the Episcopal
Establishment and the partisans of the Stuarts; in Maryland, Roman
Catholics, imbued with the largest spirit of toleration; in Delaware and
New Jersey, the countrymen of Gustavus Adolphus, alive with
Protestantism and mechanical invention; in New England, the
representatives of Presbyterianism, Independency, and Anabaptists, in
church intolerantly tolerant of those who differed from them, and
jealous liberals in state matters,—an epitome of the various dissenting
and freedom-claiming classes in England during the important era of the
decade which preceded and succeeded the Commonwealth; in New York, the
sturdy burghers of Holland, commercial, Protestant, and free, mixed with
Englishmen who believed in kingly prerogative as they did in the
Thirty-nine Articles; and now the drab peaceful Quakers, cherishing the
inner light, simple in speech and garb, wise in their worldly wisdom,
yet harmless as doves, firm, yet not defiant, keeping on their hats in
presence of dignitaries, yet servants to the lowliest in the bonds of
truth and love.

William Penn is one of the few characters, which, wine-like, improves by
age. His cask was filled with pure juices of the grape, grown in honest
soils, and ripened by the natural sun. Tested in every way, it shows no
adulterations.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Opening the text

The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the presentSherwood, John D.

History

The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

Sherwood, John D.

United States -- History -- Humor

Governments and states, like pianos, go according to the works
originally put into them. Unlike the grand-action instruments of the
Carolinas, manufactured in the princely factory of Lord Shaftesbury and
John Locke, dissimilar to the violin movement of the New England States,
the banjo airs of Virginia, or “the harp with a thousand strings” set up
in New York, the government of Pennsylvania combined the sweetness of
the æolian harp and the free harmonious breathings of the accordion. And
the music which Penn drew from it was such as “soothed the savage
breast”; for Pennsylvania was the only American settlement which never
heard the whirr of the Indian arrow through her woods, or the sullen
blow of the death-dealing tomahawk in the settler’s hut.

[Illustration:

  PORTRAIT OF PENN.
  (p. 144)
]

To complete the mosaic pavement of our American house, all kinds of
materials seemed necessary. In South Carolina, French Huguenots; in
Georgia, Oglethorpe the loyalist, with loyal settlers; in North
Carolina, English yeomanry; in Virginia, supporters of the Episcopal
Establishment and the partisans of the Stuarts; in Maryland, Roman
Catholics, imbued with the largest spirit of toleration; in Delaware and
New Jersey, the countrymen of Gustavus Adolphus, alive with
Protestantism and mechanical invention; in New England, the
representatives of Presbyterianism, Independency, and Anabaptists, in
church intolerantly tolerant of those who differed from them, and
jealous liberals in state matters,—an epitome of the various dissenting
and freedom-claiming classes in England during the important era of the
decade which preceded and succeeded the Commonwealth; in New York, the
sturdy burghers of Holland, commercial, Protestant, and free, mixed with
Englishmen who believed in kingly prerogative as they did in the
Thirty-nine Articles; and now the drab peaceful Quakers, cherishing the
inner light, simple in speech and garb, wise in their worldly wisdom,
yet harmless as doves, firm, yet not defiant, keeping on their hats in
presence of dignitaries, yet servants to the lowliest in the bonds of
truth and love.

William Penn is one of the few characters, which, wine-like, improves by
age. His cask was filled with pure juices of the grape, grown in honest
soils, and ripened by the natural sun. Tested in every way, it shows no
adulterations.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

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