| Author: | John Fretwell | ISBN: | 1230000139969 |
| Publisher: | VolumesOfValue | Publication: | June 7, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Fretwell |
| ISBN: | 1230000139969 |
| Publisher: | VolumesOfValue |
| Publication: | June 7, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Excerpt
"To be taken into the American Union is to be adopted into a partnership. To belong as a Crown Colony to the British Empire, as things stand, is no partnership at all.
"It is to belong to a power which sacrifices, as it has always sacrificed, the interest of its dependencies to its own. The blood runs freely through every vein and artery of the American body corporate. Every single citizen feels his share in the life of his nation. Great Britain leaves her Colonies to take care of themselves, refuses what they ask, and forces on them what they had rather be without. ...
Excerpt
"To be taken into the American Union is to be adopted into a partnership. To belong as a Crown Colony to the British Empire, as things stand, is no partnership at all.
"It is to belong to a power which sacrifices, as it has always sacrificed, the interest of its dependencies to its own. The blood runs freely through every vein and artery of the American body corporate. Every single citizen feels his share in the life of his nation. Great Britain leaves her Colonies to take care of themselves, refuses what they ask, and forces on them what they had rather be without. ...
