Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War Between the United States and Great-Britain
There are periods 111 the transactions of every country, as well as in the life of every individual, when self-c xamination becomes a duty of the h1ghest moral obligation; when the government of a free people, d1iven ironi the path of and bathed in every effort to'regain it, may resort, for consolation, to the conscious rectitude of its measures, and when an ap mankind foun ded upon truth andjusticé, engage those synipathies, by which even nations are led to participate in the fame and fortunes of each other. -'l'lie United States, under these inipres sions, are neitherriiisensiblc to the advantages, nor to the duties of their peculiar situation. They have bat recently, as it: Wire, established their independence and the volume of their na tional history lies open, at'a glance, to every eye.
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