OF THE AMERICAN NATION, OR THE RISE AND DECLINE OF OLIGARCHY IN THE WEST. BY J. ARTHUR PARTRIDGE, = AUTHOR OF "COALITIONS AND FRONTIERS IN 1860-1," 66 THE FALSE NATION AND ITS 'BASES ;' "E PLURIBUS UNUM." LONDON: EDWARD STANFORD, 6, CHARING CROSS. 4.-82761 6396.51 HARVARD COLLEGE FEB 2 1891 LIBRARY. Bright fund. The whole Freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. The enjoyment of those never more certain, than in a free commonwealth. Both which, in my opinion, may be best and soonest obtained, if every county in the land were made a kind of subordinate commonalty or commonwealth.”Milton. "The Reformation made another enormous stride, when at the American Revolution the State and the Church were solemnly and openly dissevered from one another."-Draper, Intellectual Development of Europe. "Not Democracy in America, but free Christianity in Amemerica, is the real key to the study of the People and their Institutions."-Goldwin Smith. 27 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION; OR THE RISE AND DECLINE OF OLIGARCHY IN THE WEST. "Cette vieille Europe m'ennui."-Napoleon. "Soon after the Reformation a few people came over for conscience sake. This apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America."-John Adams. "America is therefore the land of the future where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the world's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of old Europe."-Hegel. "As interesting mankind the question was, shall the Reformation developed to the fulness of free inquiry, succeed in its protest against the middle ages."-Bancroft. "The more a man is versed in business the more he finds the hand of Providence everywhere."- Chatham. "You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am. not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this DECLARATION. Yet through all the gloom, I can see that the end is more than worth all the means; and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction."- John Adams, 3rd July, 1776. "The Declaration of Independence constituted a sacred pledge in the name of God, solemnly given by each State, to abolish slavery soon as practicable, and to substitute Freedom in its place."- John Quincy Adams, 1844. |