The book The Life And Times of John Dickinson 1732 1808 was written by author Stillé, Charles J. (Charles Janeway), 1819-1899 Here you can read free online of The Life And Times of John Dickinson 1732 1808 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Life And Times of John Dickinson 1732 1808 a good or bad book?
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The rest constituted the very flower of the moneyed and intellec- tual aristocracy of the Province, and upon them rested the responsibility of giving or withholding their assent to that document which may be said in a very important sense to have created a new world, — the Declaration of Independence. Before considering the work of the Continental Con- gress which brought us safely through the Revolutionary war, and especially the policy which led to the early adoption of the Declaration of Ind...ependence, we must look at some of the formidable obstacles which stood in the way of success. It is perhaps not too much to say that when resistance was first spoken of, up to at least the outbreak of the war, no sentiment could have been more abhorrent to the mass of the people than that which the Declaration afterwards embodied. Even a suoro-estion that the dissolution of our connec- tion with the British Empire would in any event be desirable would have been looked upon as monstrous. Outside all mere political considerations there were feelings, the force of which we can now understand 122 OBSTACLES TO ARMED RESISTANCE.
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