EPOCHS AND CHARACTERISTICS,

WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF THE

LONDON, TORONTO, AND MONTREAL CONFERENCES.

BY THE

_REV. EGERTON RYERSON, D.D., LL.D._

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This Volume is not a mere reprint of the Essays that appeared in the
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which has not heretofore appeared.

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pen which, during a long and busy life, was ever wielded in defence of
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The Loyalists of America

AND

THEIR TIMES.

BY THE

REV. EGERTON RYERSON, D.D., LL.D.,

_Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada from 1844 to 1876._

This book is one of national importance. It is the most ample and minute
account of the U. E. Loyalists and their Times which has hitherto been
published. It describes very fully the early Colonial History of
America, and traces the important distinction, often overlooked, between
the Pilgrim Fathers and the Puritan Fathers in New England, who
maintained separate Governments for seventy years. The religious
persecutions of the Quakers and other dissidents from Puritan creed and
civil constitution are reviewed, and the stern intolerance of the latter
is shown. The fortunes of the Colonies under the Long Parliament, the
Commonwealth, and the Restoration, are carefully traced. The prolonged
conflict between France and England for the possession of the Continent,
with its battles, sieges, and adventurous campaigns is given in detail.
The growing estrangement between Great Britain and the Colonies, and the
stormy events of the Revolutionary War, are recounted. This epoch is
very fully discussed from a British Loyalist point of view. The author
avows his sympathy with the colonists in their assertion of their rights
as British subjects, and avers his belief that but for their
revolutionary Declaration of Independence they would within a
twelvemonth have obtained all that they desired without the shedding of
blood, without the unnatural alliance with France, much less a war of
seven years. Bu