. American history:. ed by a strangeunion of opposing motives and principles, unequalled in the annalsof history. France and Spain, the arbitrary despots of the oldwoild, had stood forth as the protectors of an infant republic, andhad combined, contrary to all the principles of their political faith,Jto establish the rising liberties of America. They seemed but asblind instruments in the hands of Providence, employed to aid inthe founding of a nation which should cultivate those republicanvirtues that were destined yet to regenerate the world upon theprinciples of iiniversal intelligence, and
. American history:. ed by a strangeunion of opposing motives and principles, unequalled in the annalsof history. France and Spain, the arbitrary despots of the oldwoild, had stood forth as the protectors of an infant republic, andhad combined, contrary to all the principles of their political faith,Jto establish the rising liberties of America. They seemed but asblind instruments in the hands of Providence, employed to aid inthe founding of a nation which should cultivate those republicanvirtues that were destined yet to regenerate the world upon theprinciples of iiniversal intelligence, and eventually to overthrowthe time-worn system of tyrannical usurpation of the few over themany. 1783. 2 General terms of these articles. 3. Peace wit?lHolland. 4. Remarkson the charac-ter oftliewar, and theparts taken in it lij France and Spain. cm ^:^■ K-< ./If, ■■ ■ X-J •.■-•,.! -,!■ ■■■■ y. -t- ^ \ (jii^|i!!iiii!iiii!iL\;.^^i;^;>{ik^^iij!ii^ /-. - -fl. t s l,:Viif ^Ai-,^: ; ,W ftZli^Vs ■^^y-: ~i j^ -.^f*?T^
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