A Compendium of American Literature; Chronologically Arranged, With Biographical Sketches of the Authors
A Compendium of American Literature; Chronologically Arranged, With Biographical Sketches of the Authors
Charles Dexter Cleveland
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The eloquence and the internal counsels of the Old Ooagreos were never recorded ; we know them only in their results; but that assembly, with no other power than that conferred by tie suflPrage of the people, with no other influence than that of their public virtue and talents, and without precedent to guide their deliberations — unsupported even by the arm of law or of ancient usages — ^that assembly levied troops, imposed taxes, and for years not only retained the confidence and upheld the ci...vil existence of a distracted country, but carried through a Digitized by VjOOg IC JAEID 8PABX8. 451 f»eriloa8 war nnder its most aggrayatiBg bnrdens of sacrifice atad snffering. Can we imagine a sitoation in which were re- c|iiired higher moral coarage, more intelligence and talent, a deeper insight into human nature and the principles of social mad political organisations, or, indeed, aaj of those qualities which constitnte greatness of character in a statesman ? See, likewise, that work of wondw, the Confederation — a union of independent States, constructed in the very heart of a desolat- ing war, but with a beauty and strength, imperfect as it was, of which the ancient leagues of the Amphictjons, the Achaeans, the Ljcians, and the modern confederacies of Germany, Hol- land, Switzerland, afford neither exemplar nor parallel.
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