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 ers awoke to the fact that America was manufacturing for herself and before they obtained power enough in Parliament to procure restrictive legislation.

Charles II. died, and James II. became King of England in 1685. His arbitrary and tyrannical career as lord proprietor and governor of the colonies of New York and New Jersey, while he was Duke of York, prepared him for arbitrary measures with the colonies when he became King of Great Britain. One of these measures was to send over one of his favorites, George Arundel, as governor of Aristopia, in the place of the venerable Governor Morton, then nearly one hundred years old; although this was in flagrant violation of the charter.

The royalist governor came to Morgania, the capital of Aristopia, and very much surprised he was to find flourishing and highly civilized communities where he expected to find the scattered settlements and rude huts of a few thousand semi-barbarous colonists. Mortonia was a city of several thousand inhabitants, with many public buildings, all of brick or stone, with slate roofs. The dwelling-houses were mostly of wood, neatly painted,