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[39] Herodot VI -- 109

[40] For the coned on board the Mayflower, see Hutchinson's History, Vol II, Appendix, No I For an eloquent description of the manner in which the first Christian Sabbath was passed on board the Mayflower, at Plymouth, see Barnes's Discourse at Worcester

[41] The naers in the Mayfloith soical Register, Vol I p 47, and a narration of soe, Vol II p 188 For an account of Mrs White the land, see Baylies's History of Plyrine, see Moore's Lives of American Governors, Vol I p 31, note

[42] See the admirable letter written on board the Arbella, in Hutchinson's History, Vol I, Appendix, No I

[43] In reference to the British policy respecting Colonial manufactures, see Representations of the Board of Trade to the House of Lords, 23d Jan, 1734; also, 8th June, 1749 For an able vindication of the British Colonial policy, see ”Political Essays concerning the Present State of the British E papers, illustrating the early history of the Colony, inal Papers relating to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay”

[45] In reference to the fulfilment of this prediction, see Mr

Webster's Address at the Celebration of the New England Society of New York, on the 23d of December, 1850

[46] John Adams, second President of the United States

[47] See Note B, at the end of the Discourse

[48] Oratio pro Flacco, -- 7

[49] The first free school established by law in the Plymouth Colony was in 1670-72 One of the early teachers in Boston taught school more than _seventy_ years See Cotton Mather's ”Funeral Sermon upon Mr Ezekiel Cheever, the ancient and honorable Master of the Free School in Boston”

For the iner by the general attention to popular education, as characteristic of the American polity, see Mackay's Western World, Vol III p 225 _et seq_ Also, Edinburgh Review, No

186

[50] By a law of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, passed as early as 1647, it was ordered, that, ”when any town shall increase to the number of one hundred fara able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University”

[51] In reference to the opposition of the Colonies to the slave-trade, see a representation of the Board of Trade to the House of Lords, 23d January, 1733-4

NOTES

NOTE A Page 8

The allusion in the Discourse is to the large historical painting of the Landing of the Pilgrient, Esq, of Boston, and, with great liberality, presented by hirim Society It appeared in their hall (of which it forms the chief ornament) for the first time at the celebration of 1824 It represents the principal personages of the co, with the Indian Samoset, who approaches thee, hiuished artist, the late venerable Colonel Trureataccount of it will be found in Dr Thacher's History of Ply, by Robert N Weir, Esq, of the largest size, representing the eriress, fills one of the panels of the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washi+ngton The moment chosen by the artist for the action of the picture is that in which the venerable pastor Robinson, with tears, and benedictions, and prayers to Heaven, dismisses the beloved members of his little flock to the perils and the hopes of their great enterprise The characters of the personages introduced are indicated with discrimination and power, and the accessories of the work uished historical interest and of great artistic ri painting by Mr Flagg, intended to represent the deep religious feeling which so strikingly characterized the first settlers of New England With this object in view, the central figure is that of Elder Brewster It is a picture of cabinet size, and is in possession of a gentleman of New Haven, descended froe 38

As the opinion of contemporaneous thinkers on this ieneral reader, it is dee extract from a letter, written in 1849, to shoerfully the truths uttered in 1820, in the spirit of prophecy, as it were, impressed themselves upon certain minds, and how closely the verification of the prediction has been watched