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and, migrating to the vicinity of the
Oneida Lake, were welcomed by their kindred of the
Iroquois as the sixth nation of their confederacy.
Their humbled allies were established as a single settlement in
the precincts of
Hyde.
Thus the power of the natives of
North Carolina was broken, and its interior forests became safe places of resort to the emigrant
Meantime, the house of
Hanover had ascended the
English throne—an event doubly grateful to the colonies.
The contest of parties is the struggle, not between persons, but between ideas; and the abiding sympathy of nations is never won but by an appeal to the controlling principles of the age. George I. had imprisoned his wife; had, from jealousy, caused a young man to be assassinated; had had frequent and angry quarrels with his son; and now, being fiftythree years old, attended by two women of the Hanoverian aristocracy, who were proud of being known as his mistresses, he crossed the sea to become the sovereign of a country of which he understood neither the institutions, the manners, nor the language.
Intrusting the administration to the whigs, he avowed his purpose of limiting his favor to them, as though he were himself a member of their party; and, in return, by a complaisant ministry, places in the highest ranks of the
English aristocracy were secured to his mistresses, whose number he, in his sixty-seventh year, just before his death, was designing to enlarge.
And yet, throughout English America, even the clergy heralded the elevation of George I. as an omen of happiness; and from the pulpit in
Boston it was announced
of its people that, in the whole land, ‘not a dog can wag his tongue to charge them with disloyalty.’
To the children of the Puritans, the accession of the house
