The Making of the American Nation: Or, The Rise and Decline of Oligarchy in the WestThe Making of the American Nation: Or, The Rise and Decline of Oligarchy in the West by James Partridge Arthur, first published in 1866, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... 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 ...
... mean a Confederate Republic . " A Republic of this kind *** may support itself without any internal corruption . *** It possesseth all the advantages of large monarchies . ” " Should a popular insurrection happen in one of the States ...
... means of learning to combine the two in him- self . The freedom and the fitness for Freedom must be as universal as the concentration of power is intense . This can only be achieved by a nation fit to receive and determined to possess ...
... " ) Consent to bad Government is consent to ruin . Good Government can come only of general Intellectual and moral Development . Where the Government of the all is good Govern- ment , there only are the means and the end X PREFACE .
... means and the end both answered , there and there only is Democracy , — there only is a Royal and also a loyal nation . Broadly and absolutely , then , there are two great elements of interest in this American question ; the one of ...