Life of General Lafayette, With a Critical Estimate of His Character And Public Acts;
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The Americans were striving to retain a free- dom which had been inherited from remote ances- tors. The French were seeking to destroy an arbitrary government in order to build up a Utopian dem- ocracy which was contrary to every national tradition. The Americans were only resisting encroachments on the rights of free citizens. jOne revolution, aiming at unlimited innovation, was to pass through anarchy to despotism ; the other, resisting innovation, was to in- sure a familiar and rational libe...rty. While the condition of France highly favored the alliance, that event was largely due to the diplomatic skill of Franklin himself. A plain, practical man, wholly unused to courts, but possessing the dignity of intellect and long-tried virtue, the resources of wit and tact, he moved amid the most polished and the 74 LIFE OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE. most corrapt society of Europe master of himself and the situation. His • eye always on the main chance, he turned to good account the thoughtless tendencies of fashion, the wild theories of philosophy, directing all enthusiasm into the important channel of French interference.
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