e
industrious and bold pursuits of their forefathers. In that fine
country, beginning at Utica, in the State of New York, and stretching to
Lake Erie, this race may be found on every hill and in every valley, on
the rivers and on the lakes. The emigrant from the sandbanks of Cape Cod
revels in the profusion of the opulence of Ohio. In all the Southern and
South-Western States, the natives of the "Old Colony," like the
Arminians of Asia, may be found in every place where commerce and
traffic offer any lure to enterprise; and in the heart of the peninsula
of Michigan, like their ancestors they have commenced the cultivation of
the wilderness--like them originally, with savage hearts and savage men,
and like them patient in suffering, despising danger, and animated with
hope."[21]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 10: "The term PILGRIMS belongs exclusively to the Plymouth
colonists." (Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims, p. 88, note.)]

[Footnote 11: The only exception was by Prence, when elected Governor in
1657. He had imbibed the spirit of the Boston Puritans against the
Quakers, and sought to infuse his spirit into the minds of his
assistants (or executive councillors) and the deputies; but he was
stoutly opposed by Josias Winslow and others. The persecution was short
and never unto death, as among the Boston Puritans. It was the only
stain of persecution upon the rule of the Pilgrims during the seventy
years of their separate government, and was nobly atoned for and effaced
by Josias Winslow, when elected Governor in the place of Prence.]

[Footnote 12: Massachusetts Historical Collections, 3rd Series, Vol.
II., p. 226.]

[Footnote 13: "The colony of Plymouth included the present counties of
Plymouth, Barnstaple, and Bristol, and a part of Rhode Island. All the
Providence Plantations were at one time claimed by Plymouth. The
boundaries between Plymouth and Massachusetts were settled in 1640 by
commissioners of the united colonies." (_Ib._, p. 267.)]

[Footnote 14: The laws they intended to be governed by were the laws of
England, the which they were willing to be subject unto, though in a
foreign land, and have since that time continued of that mind for the
general, adding only some particular municipal laws of their own,
suitable to their constitution, in such cases where the common laws and
statutes of England could not well reach, or afford them help in
emergent difficulties of place. (Hubbard's "General History of Ne