Excerpt from Makers of the American Republic: A Series of Patriotic Lectures This series of popular lectures is full of bistori cal data and pioneer incidents of colonial times, vividly portraying pen-pictures of the Virginia colonists, the Pilgrims, the Hollanders, the Puri tans, the Quakers, t'he Scotch, and the Huguenots, with chapters on the in uence of the discoveries of Christopher Columbus, and the work of George Washington as a factor in American history, and the effect of the growth of the Christian church in the formation and development of the nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."