The Tories or loyalists in America; being slight historical tracings, from the footprints of Sir John Johnson and his cotemporaries in the revolution . in the Revolution, 8i those of their cotemporaries, and of the circumstances whichgoverned all of them. This naturally inspires a comparison with the more familiarones of their successors, and of their relative administrationof public trust. It may even induce a conjecture as to theresult — if it were possible to make the experiment — of placingthe members of the Congress of 1776, in the seats of a few ofits recent representatives. The alternat
The Tories or loyalists in America; being slight historical tracings, from the footprints of Sir John Johnson and his cotemporaries in the revolution . in the Revolution, 8i those of their cotemporaries, and of the circumstances whichgoverned all of them. This naturally inspires a comparison with the more familiarones of their successors, and of their relative administrationof public trust. It may even induce a conjecture as to theresult — if it were possible to make the experiment — of placingthe members of the Congress of 1776, in the seats of a few ofits recent representatives. The alternative, by a substitution ofmany of our present for those past law-makers, would give occu-pation for a stronger imagination, in realizing the uses of themodern appliances of legislation in those time-honored chairs. Were such transpositions of men of the present for those ofthat important crisis possible, might it not be less difficult, evenafter a century of brilliant national prosperity, affording oppor-tunities to individuals which few then enjoyed, and a condensa-tion of events which no other nation has probably ever witnessedin a similar
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