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things, or those enjoyments, which they either want- ed in reality, or of which they fancied themselves destitute; and, from the first permanent settlement of those parts of America now forming the United States, the stream of emigration continued to flow into them with little interruption. For, according as men were driven from England, Scotland, or Ireland, either by the pressure of poverty, or by disabilities on account of their religious scruples, or whether they were allured from home by the golden visions of gain, it was natural, or at least common, for them to remove to those parts of America, where some of their friends or acquaintances had previously gone. Urged by these motives, and to escape also from the oppressive tyranny of the times, thousands emigrated annually to those colonies.

The dread of arbitrary power, either in a political or religious form, was, certainly, the predominant cause of the emigrations that peopled North Ame- rica. Its settlement was occasioned as much by religious intolerance, which drove thousands of Puri- tans from England, as by the enterprising passion of adventure, or the more powerful motives which urge _ men to escape from the evils of poverty. Those very Puritans, however, were no sooner established in the New England States, than they in their turn per- secuted the Quakers with all the rage of spiritual fanaticism.*

* Note B.