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Years later the noble rhetoric and inescapable logic of John Milton and the bitter satires of Jouathan Swift. in his newspaper called the Examiner. published in 1.710. forced the alolitioi. of the censorship over the press. which was another forward step in securing a larger liberty for the people. The past 150 years. however. has been an age during which liberty has advanced to a greater degree than in any other equal number of years in the worlds history. In 1775 the population of the American Colonies numbered approximately 3.000.000 arnd was principally conposed of the descendants of those persons who had emigrated hither to enjoy freedom of conscience. thought. and worship. They lived along that strip of land which fringes the Atlantic coast. stretching from Florida to Maine. In their veins was the blood of the Saarsfields and the Calverts. of John Hampden. who arraigned his King for the unconstitutional exactions of ship money.a the blood of the Irish. whose ardent zeal for and affectionate attachnent to liberty and freedomu. and whose loyally and devotion to free governlnent no power can ever crush. the blood of the stubborn Britisher. the Huguenots. the sturdy Scotch.