Excerpt from English Opinion of the American, Constitution and Government (1783-1798) But a drift of fundamental opinion is ascertainable. It is easy to look behind the benevolent expressions of our sympathizers in 1782-88 and find that their enthusiasm is a little puffed in face' of the facts of the situation. Their hearts were not so strong as their voices. It is easy to detect in the acrid remarks of our opponents in 1790-96 some additional acerbity because the experiment is lasting so long. While the well-wishers ...
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Excerpt from English Opinion of the American, Constitution and Government (1783-1798) But a drift of fundamental opinion is ascertainable. It is easy to look behind the benevolent expressions of our sympathizers in 1782-88 and find that their enthusiasm is a little puffed in face' of the facts of the situation. Their hearts were not so strong as their voices. It is easy to detect in the acrid remarks of our opponents in 1790-96 some additional acerbity because the experiment is lasting so long. While the well-wishers become more sincerely confident, the adversaries grumble. Indeed, as in America itself, English opinion seems slowly to have evolved from an initial certainty that the union was bound to fail, to an ultimate confidence that heavy odds were in favor of its endurance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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