The Madmen´s Chronicle
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Excerpt from The Madmen´s Chronicle: Exemplified in the Conduct of George the Third, and His Ministers Towards the United States, From the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace to the Present Time The success of freemen in a war, depends in a great degree on their conviction of its justice and necessity. Once made acquainted with its causes and its objects, once persuaded that their national honour and their national security are at stake, they will be likely to prosecute it with an ardor, unanimity and energy, which no perils, no difficulties can ever abate, and which are always the certain harbingers of victory and glory. In national as well as private affairs, a lapse of time serves to blunt, if not totally to eradicate, the resentment excited by unprovoked injury, even when inflicted by the ruthless hand of an insidious and inveterate foe. That this has been the case with America, there is strong proof in her forbearance and magnanimity. Many flagitious aggressions have, by the fluctuations of public sentiment, and from the distance of the period in which they were perpetrated, been obliterated from the recollection of many real friends of their country. To revive those scenes of outrage, rapine and murder in the minds of our countrymen - to keep alive the sacred flame, new lighted up - in a word, to promote a correct and general knowledge of the ostensible and efficient causes of the war in which we arc about to engage, are the objects of the following pages. Let no American imagine that we arc to take up arms merely to avenge the recent violation of our flag and our honour, or the death of our fellow-citizens, insidiously slaughtered in a moment of peace. Though these outrages, of themselves, would be sufficient to kindle (and they have kindled) an unquenchable thirst for honorable vengeance, yet they form only an item in the long catalogue of insults and aggressions, for which we are bound by the respect we owe ourselves as descendants of a gallant ancestry, to obtain the most ample retribution. The peace of 1783 gave us what we had contended for - Independence. 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.
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