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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. BOSTON. Massachusetts is the most important of the states which constitute what is generally known as New England. It contains the flourishing and interesting city of Boston, now better known than its English sister. New England is remarkable for its Puritan character, which is now, perhaps, more a matter of history than of reality. But to Puritanism New England certainly owes the high character its inhabitants have for their superior civilization and morality over the other states in the Union.- New England has also given birth or domicile to most of the authors and men of science who have adorned America. The history of the colonization of the various states is of great interest, none more so than of New England. It was here that in a new, untrodden soil, our forefathers, persecuted for conscience sake, set foot, not willingly, but of compulsion. Their attachment to the country they had left is evinced by the fact of their calling the home of their adoption New England. They wished it to be new in more ways than one, and thought to establish a model government. But the true principles of religious liberty, little understood now, were less so then, and our Puritan ancestors, men who had suffered much for religion's sake, thought that they, in their turn, could also ensure religious uniformity by the same means. This is all past, but the influence of their example is still felt in theattachment to law, order, and morality, which distinguishes New Englanders—Yankees, as they are called somewhat contemptuously. It is a mistake to apply the term Yankee to Americans generally. While New Englanders are often proud of being Yankees, other Americans, southerners especially, repudiate the term, and speak with scorn of a Yankee abolitionist as one beneath contempt. Bo...