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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. As we each give thanks for what we have and for the opportunities open to us, let us reflect upon a page of history:
"The American colonists were the recipients of a rich social experience.
While they were pushing slowly to the West, while new immigrants were arriving, while new
towns were springing up and new industries were shaping economic life, there was war with
the Indians, there was fighting that moved in gear with the wars of Europe, there was conflict between the colonies and against their magistrates, and there were increasing disagreements with the political and economic policies of the mother country. A new nation was unconsciously coming into being during the 169 years that mark the span from the foundling of Jamestown in 1607 to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The settlement at Jamestown was but the beginning of a remarkable movement of settlement in the new era. In 1620 the Separatists from Holland founded the colony at Plymouth, armed as they were with the Mayflower Compact of November in that year...."
Wilson, Francis Graham, The American Political Mind: A Textbook in Political Theory, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1949, p.27.
