July 2, Congress passed Lee's resolution, and what had been the United Colonies became free and independent states.

"The United Colonies of New England."%There were now five colonies in New England; namely, Plymouth, or the "Old Colony," Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Haven.

When the old Colonies became States, they in their constitutions usually imposed the same checks upon the executive they themselves elected as they had desired to see imposed upon the executive appointed by an outside power.

Municipia Roman Colonies and Municipia are Praefectura.

But when Santa Fé (sahn'-tah fa') was founded, in 1582, the only colony of Spain in the United States, besides the missions in Arizona and New Mexico, was St. Augustine in Florida.

With the Declaration of Independence the thirteen colonies became sovereigns.

After the discovery of the North American coast by the Cabots, England made no attempt to settle it for nearly eighty years; and even then the colonies planted by Gilbert and Ralegh were failures.

Our colonies, therefore, however distant, have been, hitherto, treated as constituent parts of the British empire.

Her greatest colony was Carthage, the founding of which (823 B.C.) sapped the strength of the mother-country, and which afterwards usurped her place, and contended with Rome for the mastery of the world.

His colony he selected with great care and with few exceptions they are a sturdy, wholesome lot, enjoying the peaceful life of Sangoa and thoroughly satisfied with their condition there.

Colonies are things to be proud of, but for a country to be only proud of its extremities is like a man being only proud of his legs.

The colony was the French equivalent of Jamaica, but more prosperous and more self-willed and self-indulgent.

This Asiatic colony, although considered as conferring great lustre on the crown and name of our monarch, by exhibiting the vast extent of the limits of his dominions, has in reality been, during a long series of years, a true burden to the government, or at least, a possession whose chief advantages have redounded in favor of other powers, rivals of our maritime importance.

They who founded colonies in America as trading-stations or military outposts probably did not foresee that these colonies must by and by become imperial states far greater in physical mass than the states which planted them.

The Colony of Georgia will be a proper asylum for these.

In fact, he formed a theory that the colony in far distant times had been an island, the low-lying flats to the east joining the plains west of the Darling.

There, at last, complete freedom of dissent was found, and one of the consequences was that the colony became a sort of field for Christian dialectics, where the most extreme doctrines on all points of Christian belief were discussed without other or more serious results of the odium theologicum than the building of many meeting-houses and the multiplication of sects.

" "This is well enough for a king's officer, major Willoughby; but all large bodies of men are formidable when they are right, and nations these colonies are a nation, in extent and numberare not so easily put down, when the spirit of liberty is up and doing among them.

But it must be remembered that the British colonies are not colonies in the real sense of the word, but consist chiefly in Dominions which enjoy an almost complete autonomy.

The colony has been in operation fat a little more than eleven years.

The injury inflicted by the exclusive system pursued, is, that less land is put under cultivation, and fewer people are encouraged to go there; both the colony and the mother country are sufferers thereby.

While yet her colony was new, Her island products but a few, Two shoots from off a coffee-tree

A colony that has no other strong place to garrison than its capital, and on the loyalty of whose inhabitants there are sufficient motives to rely, ought, in my opinion, to be considered as adequately provided against all ordinary occurrences in time of peace, with the 4,000 regulars, more or less, of all arms, the usual military establishment.

Colonies are always the effects and causes of navigation.

The colonies were separate units, each jealous of its own industrial prosperity.