Loyalty to England. — Although the immigrant generation passed from the field of action, and affairs came into the hands of those who called themselves "Englishmen" and yet had never been in England, loyalty to the mother land did not abate. Notwithstanding their isolation in regard to one another, all the Colonies were intensely true to what they called their "home across the sea." Even the New Englanders who had quarrelled with England to a degree that they could leave her forever, were proud to call themselves Englishmen, and regarded New England simply as a part of the old England which they had left. Whatever may be said to the contrary, the colonists did not dream of independence until the very close of the Colonial Age. They could complain of harsh treatment, and even resist a tyrannical governor, as did Bacon in Virginia in 1676, but they no more thought of independence from Great Britain than did the citizens of London. Franklin, as late as 1775, told Lord Chatham that in all his intercourse with all sorts of people in the Colonies he had never heard a desire to separate from England expressed. The negligence of Great Britain forced the Colonies to unite, and her injustice forced them to independence.
The Second Colonial Period. — The Revolution1642—1727. Issac Newton
1661—1731. Daniel DeFoe.
1667—1745. Jonathan Swift.
1672—1719. Joseph Addison
1672—1729. Richard Steele. of 1688, which forced the intolerant James II to flee to France, and placed the protestant monarchs, William and Mary, on the English throne, marks the end of the First Colonial Period. There was no change in the tone of the literary product
