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the opprobrium of treason from their names : as it is , their success is their virtue , and they have long" been honoured in Eugland nearly as much as in the United States , whose independence is their glorious work . Washington is a name dear to the
whole civilized world ; he is the model both of a generous captain and of an upright statesman . His fame has grown in proportion as the world has seen and examined succeeding heroes and rulers . There was a simplicity in his mind and character which is
admired the more it is contemplated , and the retiringness of his manners , which was complained of during his life-time , is now acknowledged to have been the modesty which is one of the signs of true moral greatness . Of this Founder of American liberty
the author of the History writes without extravagance , as if properly con ^ scious that his name requires no gliC tering epithets to make it illustrious . It is a signal blessing to a new country to enrol amongst its Fathers such an example of public virtue ; and we venture to predict , that so long as
Washington shall be revered in his true character by the Americans , but no longer , will they be free and happy . The History gives an account of the several Colonies , of the French War of 175 G—1 ^ 63 , of the Revdlution , of the present Constitution of the States , of the new States incorporated since the Revolution , of the several Administrations under the
successive Presidents , and of the late unhappy war with Great Britain ; unhappy to both countries , but moTe particularly to America , which has been dazzled by her successes in various
small naval conflicts , and seduced into an admiration of warlike glory , which may blind her to the miseries , dangers and crimes of war . The present sensible and amiable writer is not
exempt from the perilous enthusiasm . The great evils which beset the early settlers in America arose from the treachery and cruelty of the Indians . In another century , the colonists experienced the misery of having the battles of France and England fought on American ground . But these calamities had their use : the neighbourhood of faithless , fierce and restless savages nursed the bravery of
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the settlers , kept them compact , # nj gave a * salutary check to their cupidity : and the introduction of European armies initiated them in military tactics , and inured them to the dis T cipline of the camp , and thus prepared
them for making- effectual resistance to the oppression of England . The riflemen , who have done so much execution in the several American contests , were trained in the back-settlements , where experience had taught them to look for a foe in every bush ;
and Washing-ton and others of the Revolutionary commanders had learned the art of war under British leaders in the struggles between France and England on their Transatlantic
territories . We love not war ; we justify only wars of self-defence , which we think are not incapable of being defined ; but we admire the ways of Providence , which so restrains and overrules the wrath of man as to make the
infelicities of a country subservient to its final greatest good . In the account of Massachusetts , the author has told tlie story of the two Judges of Charles I ., who fled oa
the Restoration to New England , which was investigated with true Bepublican ardour by Dr . Styles , the President of Yale College , who published the result of his researches in a
little volume , scarcely known in ' ., this country , which was almost the- first book for the space of a century and half that contained an avowed vindication of the character and government of the Great Regicide , Oliver Cromwell .
" A short time after , Whalley and Goffe , two of the Judges who had sentenced Charles the First to be beheaded , having fled before the return of his successor , arrived in New England . Their first place of residence was Cambridge ;
but they often appeared publicly hi Boston , particularly on Sundays and other days of religious solemnities . They had sustained high rank in Cromwell ' s army , were men of uncommon talents , and , by their dignified manners and grave deportment , commanded universal
respecu < c As soon as it was known that they were exoepted from the general pardon , the governor suggested to the court of assistants the expediency of arresting them . A majority opposed it , aud many members of the general court gave them assurances of protection . Considering
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104 Review . — HhUrg Of the United States .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/40/
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