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These Irish representatives of the Covenanters were in the west almost what the Puritans were in the northeast, and more than the Cavaliers were in the south.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “These Irish representatives of the Covenanters were in the west almost what the Puritans were in the northeast, and more…”
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Roosevelt compares the role of Presbyterian Irish settlers in the west to that of Puritans in the northeast.
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