James Otis the Pre Revolutionist a Brief Interpretation of the Life And Work O
James Otis the Pre Revolutionist a Brief Interpretation of the Life And Work O
John Clark Ridpath
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The American Colonies resisted, and at length won their independence. The sparks fell in France, and the jets of flame ran together in a conflagra- tion the light of which was seen over Europe, and if over Europe, then over the world. The Pre-revolutionist had cried out and mankind heard him. Resistance to tyr- anny became obedience to God. We shall here sketch rapidly and briefly the unsteady way and unfortunate decline of James Otis down to the time of the eclipse of his intellect and his tra...gic death. Three months after he had, according to John Adams, "breathed into the nation the breath of life, " he was chosen to represent Boston in the legislature of the Com- monwealth. All of his colleagues were patriots. Boston was in that mood. There runs a story that when he was entering upon his duties he was counselled by a friend to curb his impetuosity and to gain leadership by the mastery of self advice most salutary to one of his temperament. But it was much like advising General Putnam to be calm at Bunker Hill!
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