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Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered at Trinity Church, Boston, April 9, 1812, on the Day of Publick Fast
It is not, my brethren, the orders of council no, nor the Berlin and Milan decrees which produced them, that are the real cause of our misfortunes. Had our own conduct been impartial and dignified, they would never have been passed. A firm tone and a decided resistance to the first act of foreign aggres sion, from whatever quarter it came, would have caused our rights to have been respected. But, since the fatal prostration of the Washington princi ples, a series of measures has been pursued by the administration, with an obstinacy and perseverance truly astonishing, that has involved both rulers and people in difficulties almost inextricable. Yes, my brethren, it is to that submissive spirit and blind par tiality towards France in our governours, and to that unhappy antipathy towards England in almost all classes of our fellow-citizens, to which we ought fair ly to attribute the alarming and portentous situation of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
