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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ofitably introduced since,nor but one plant (sorghum) of sufficient importance to be recognized in ourofficial statistics. So writes one whose accuracy none will question.1 Let us reproduce the picture of a New-Eng-land colony during this period. It is the oneflourishing at Massachusetts Bay, which wasfounded not long after the Plymouth Colony.Picture of a Within this peaceful realm squatter-New-Eng- sovereignty was unknown ; for noland colony, individual was permitted to establishhimself without authority of the government.Each body swarmed out with a regular allotmentof individual farms, based in extent upon thewealth of the settlers; a great pasture, a peat-meadow, a salt-marsh, and fishing-grounds, beingheld in common. These farms were so laid out,that no house was over half a mile from themeeting-house ; and it was with astonishing ra-pidity that agricultural communities sprang up, like the fabled warriors ofCadmus, into full-armed life. Like those mythological knights, they were
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KNOT-REEL. 1 Professor Brewer of Yale College. OF THE UNITED STATES. 11 armed with weapons, not for their own destruction, but for the defence oftheir liberties and their homes. From these small farming-hamlets have grownup most of the towns and cities of our country, and from one of them wentforth the alpha of colonization in the Great West. In the log-cabin of thatagricultural era were first cultivated the true though austere religion, thedomestic virtues, the sturdy habits of frugal industry, the daring spirit, andthe devoted love of liberty, that have so advanced the prosperity and the gloryof this Western continent. The acorns planted by our fathers have becomestately trees, under whose umbrageous foliage thousands of their descendants,and others whom the grateful shade has invited from less-favored lands, findprotection, shelter, and repose. The same writer has given a felicitous sketch of the houses of the early set-tlers, drawn from a careful perusal of the materials collected

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