Speech on Conciliation with America

the Established Church and the New England Puritan, But at heart they were, as retainers of the Calverts, a& strictly royalists as were the Virginians. Besides, their liberal charter gave them no cause for resistance until the passage of the Stamp Act ; so we must expect that the spirit of resistance in Maryland developed much more slowly than did the same spirit in New England. And here will be found a spirit of resistance arising from a basis different from that in either New England or in Virginia. Pennsylvania. — The fourth spirit of resistance, or rather, in earlier times, of non-resistance, is to be found in Pennsylvania. Its settlement by Quakers bespeaks at once the non-resistant spirit of that sect ; and it was largely through immigrants, like Eranklin, from New England and other colonies, that the spirit of resistance arose in this colony. New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. — There was a fifth spirit of resistance in New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, whose Dutch and Swedish settlers of the earlier history of these colonies did not, of course, bring English ideas with them. Their peculiar manners and customs caused them to stand aloof from the English colonists. The conglomeration of nationalities in New York in particular will make it plain that here again the spirit of resistance arose under circumstances and conditionsdiffering from those in the colonies beforementioned. We have, then, five different spirits of resistance to trace, until we find that they gradually merged into a common spirit of resistance in the Eevolution of 1776. These spirits were a Puritan spirit, an Episcopalian-Cavalier spirit, a Roman Catholic spirit, a Quaker spirit modified by immigration, and a non-English spirit among the peoples of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.…