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Excerpt from Articles From the "London Times," Signed a "States" Man, With Others From the "New York Courier and Enquirer," Under the Same Signature
Were you to raze every town on our seaboard, (a thing im possible, as New York and Boston, not to mention other ports, I know, are so strongly fortified that no enemy could enter them) but, for the sake of argument, were you to give our cities to the flames and our ships to the waves, do you think the effects would he so durable as in an older country suffering under a like calamity Do you believe that, a few years after earth's direst curse had passed, a vestige of it would remain - that a people who, in less than the ordinary duration of human life, have turned thousands of barren spots into habitations which the heart of man delights in, would allow a second sun to shine upon the encumbered streets where their infant steps first trod P - or, that those who within the memory of middle age have distanced most competitors in the commercial race, and are now close upon the heels of the merchant princes of their parent isle, would leave their tim ber, their hemp, and their iron, for a single hour, while they straightened their backs beneath the blow that had bent them N 0, Sir The injuries to our interests would be but the his tory of a day. A young man can lose with impunity a pound of blood, while a single ounce from the veins of an old one, like the last ounce upon the camel's back, will kill. 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.
