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Excerpt from An Introductory Discourse, Delivered Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, on the Fourth of May, 1814
Ancient migrations were generally the ofiizpring of want. Sometimes a whole people departed from their natal soil, and sought for better des tinies in a milder climate and a more prolific land. Sometimes. When population became surcharged, and subsistence difficult, a portion of a nation would change its habitation at other times, colonies were plant ed i'or the purpose of retaining conquered countries and checking the predatory incursions of barbarian hordes. A different principle seems to have led to the first colonization of America. The discovery of this western world appears to have infused a new spirit int°o Europe: the. Imaginations of men were dazzled with fabulous stories of dorados, or mountains of gold, and oi', fountains by which the human race ?ourished in immortal youth. In this land the god of wealth was supposed to have erected his temples, and his votaries ?ocked from all quarters to propi tlate his blessings. When experience had sobered the distempered an. Cies of these adventurers, and had convinced them of their delusion, they still discovered that, although the precious metals were not within their.
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