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SATANSTOE:

OR,

THE LITTLEPAGE MANUSCRIPTS.

A Tale of the Colony.

BY

J. FENIMORE COOPER.

"The only amaranthine flower on earth,

Ia virtue; th' only lasting treasure, truth."-CoWPER.

FOURTH THOUSAND.

LONDON:

G. ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON STREET.

1856.

249.3.401.

PREFACE.

EVERY chronicle of manners has a certain value. When customs are connected with principles, in their origin, development, or end, such records have a double importance; and it is because we think we see such a connexion between the facts and incidents of the Littlepage Manuscripts, and certain important theories of our own time, that we give the former to the world.

It is, perhaps, a fault of your professed historian, to refer too much to philosophical agencies, and too little to those that are humbler. The foundations of great events are often remotely laid in very capricious and uncalculated passions, motives, or impulses. Chance has usually as much to do with the fortunes of states as with those of individuals; or, if there be calculations connected with them at all, they are the calculations of a power superior to any that exists in man.

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We had been led to lay these Manuscripts before the world, partly by considerations of the above nature, and partly on account of the manner in which the two works we have named, 'Satanstoe," and the "Chainbearer," relate directly to the great New York question of the day, ANTI-RENTISM; which question will be found to be pretty fully laid bare, in the third and last book of the series. These three works, which contain all the Littlepage Manuscripts, do not form sequels to each other, in the sense of personal histories, or as narratives; while they do in that of principles. The reader will see that the early career, the attachment, the marriage, &c., of Mr. Cornelius Littlepage, are completely related in the present book, for instance; while those of his son, Mr. Mordaunt Littlepage, will be just as fully given in the "Chainbearer," its successor. It is hoped that the connexion, which certainly does exist between these three works, will have more tendency to increase the value of each than to produce the ordinary effect of what are properly called sequels, which are known to lessen the interest a narrative might otherwise have with the reader. Each of these three books has its own hero, its own heroine, and its own picture of manners, complete; though the