Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; (1904) (14776949921)

Identifier: connecticutascol02morg (find matches)
Title: Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Morgan, Forrest, 1852- ed Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917 Trumbull, Jonathan, 1844-1919 Holmes, Frank R Bartlett, Ellen Strong
Subjects: Connecticut -- History
Publisher: Hartford, The Publishing Society of Connecticut
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ll them tis no sin nor shame,For we, your mothers, did the same. But it had always disappeared in any locality soon afterthe introduction of civilized comforts, and at this time it lin-gered only in the more primitive districts; and the mockeryof the outside world made it shortly impossible even there. The pack horse and stage coach were to become relics ofthe past; to be superseded by the slow-moving canal boatsand the rampant iron horse. The hamlets, clustered around the village green, were toextend their boundaries, impelled by the advancing tide ofmanufactures, which were to make Connecticuts namefamiliar with the world. Ancient barbarities were to be con-demned ; human bondage gradually abolished; the branding 329 CONNECTICUT AS COLONY AND STATE of criminals, the auctioning of the poor, the execution forlegal offenses, were all to be modified. Connecticut, in a word, was to keep pace with the van-guard of the modern world in humanity, refinement, and intel-lectual progress. 330 o
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