Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Historical View of the American Revolution, Vol. 1
It is a principle of English law, that the King cannot take the subject's money without the subject's consent. Denying this principle, England attempted to tax the Colonies through the Imperial Parliament instead of the Colonial Assemblies, and lost them. Appealing to this principle, the Colonists claimed the right to dispose freely of the fruits Of their own labors, and established their claim by the War of Independence. But they failed to see that, if the principle was true, it was true as a law of universal humanity, and therefore must sooner or later demand and Obtain universal application. And this failure to accept all the consequences of the accepted principle left the bitter and bloody war bella plus guam cz'vz'h'a - through which we are now passing as a part of their legacy to their children. Will not history say that wise statesmanship should have foreseen this as a logical sequence, and consistent Christianity should recognize it as the act of that divine justice which could not have imposed the Obligation of personal responsibility without according the right of personal freedom?
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