ave no other idea of this country [England] than as their home; they
have no other word by which to express it, and, till of late, it has
constantly been expressed by the name of home. That powerful affection,
the love of our native country, which operates in every heart, operates
in this people towards England, which they consider as their native
country; nor is this a mere passive impression, a mere opinion in
speculation,--it has been wrought up in them to a vigilant and active
zeal for the service of this country."

And Franklin's testimony confirms that of the English Governor.

"The true loyalists," he says, "were the people of America against whom
the royalists of England acted. No people were ever known more truly
loyal, and universally so, to their sovereigns.... They were
affectionate to the people of England, zealous and forward to assist in
her wars, by voluntary contributions of men and money, even beyond their
proportion."

Such was the people whose love and obedience the greedy and grasping
policy of the British Government threw away, never to be regained. The
Revolution came at last, and the people reckoned up the long arrears of
oppression. "In the short space of two years," says a contemporary
writer, "nearly three millions of people passed over from the love and
duty of loyal subjects to the hatred and resentment of enemies."

We have seen that our cautious parent had taken good care not to let her
American children learn the use of her tools any farther or faster than
she thought good for them--and herself. They no sooner got their hands
free than they set them at work on various new contrivances. One of the
first was the nail-cutting machinery which has been in use ever since.
All our old houses--the old gambrel-roofed Cambridge mansions, for
instance--are built with wrought nails, no doubt every one of them
imported from England. Many persons do not know the fact that the
screw-auger is another native American invention, having been first
manufactured for sale at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1776, or a little
earlier. Eli Whitney contrived the cotton-gin in 1792, and some years
later the machinery for the manufacture of fire-arms, involving the
principle of absolute uniformity in the pattern of each part, so that
any injured or missing portion of a gun may be instantly supplied
without special fitting.

We claim to have done our full share in the way of industrial inventions
since we have becom