History of Massachusetts for Two Hundred Years From the Year 1620 to 1820
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Others were ready to apologize for these excesses, as unavoidable in a revolution of an old and despotic state ; and to censure the factions less severely than was reasonable. It was not, however, a mere abstract question, or one addressed HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS. 349 solely to the sympathy of the people of the United States. The citizens of France, who assumed power, on the deposition and execution of the king, interfered with the government of this country, made demands on it, and assumed to... dictate what measures it would be proper for it to adopt, in a manner incom- patible with the sovereign rights of the United States. It be- came, therefore, a queston of practical importance what course to pursue. General Washington, then chief magistrate of the union, though justly sensible of the assistance of France in the war of the revolution, and desirous of a reform in the French government, which would be favorable to the liberties of the subjects, was not disposed to compromit the peace and welfare of the United States, by joining that nation in a war with other European powers.
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