Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 06 (Classic Reprint)

Librarian Boston Public Library. THE American Revolution was no unrelated event, but formed a part of the history of theB ritish race on both continents, and vras not without influence on the history of mankind. As an event in British history, it wrought with other forces in effecting that change in the Constitution of the mother country which transferred the prerogatives of the crown to the Parliament, and led to the more beneficent interpretation of its provisions in the light of natural rights. As an event in American history, it marks the period, recognized by the great powers of Europe, when a people, essentially free by birth and by the circumstances of their situation, became entitled, because justified by valor and endurance, to take their place among independent nations. Finally, as an event common to the history of both nations, it stands midway between the Great Rebellion and the Revolution of 1688, on the one hand, and the Reform Bill of 1832 and the extension of suffrage in 1884, on the other, and belongs to a race which had adopted the principles of the Reformation and of the Petition of Right. The American Revolution was not a quarrel between two peoples, theB ritish people and the American people, but, like all those events which mark the progress of theB ritish race, it was a strife between two parties, the conservatives in both countries as one party, and the liberals in both countries as the other party ;and some of its fiercest battles wer.e fought in theB ritish Parliament.
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