A Discourse Delivered Before the Rhode Island Historical Society February 6 185
A Discourse Delivered Before the Rhode Island Historical Society February 6 185
Edward B Edward Brooks Hall
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Self-government, on a new and larger scale than ever, was now to be the experiment. And its beginnings were dark. The whole country was in a state of depression, of which the hardest times since give ns probably no idea. There was all the burden, devastation, and corruption of eight years of war- fare, with an Independence established, but shared by thirteen distinct provinces united only by a confederation which proved a Aveakness and embarrassment ; while the chief property of the country con...sisted of paper and promises, Avhich the govern- ment was too poor to redeem. ■'•' And when at last a Federal Constitution was formed, with a wisdom and foresight, all things considered, nnequalled in the history of nations; it was adopted slowly by the distrustful States. At the time which Ave are now contemplating, Rhode-Island stood alone, outside of the Union, practically a foreign nation, whose ships were shut out from our own harbors, Avhose trade was at the lowest ebb, and its inhabitants leaving its borders to go into the "United States" for subsistence.
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