. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. ythe repeated British raids. The lower class of people,finding that their Government could not protect them,had lost respect for it, and indeed f
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. ythe repeated British raids. The lower class of people,finding that their Government could not protect them,had lost respect for it, and indeed for all law of what-soever kind. Moreover, it must be remembered that the United Stateswas not then a single and well-loved country. Each colonyhad in 1776 become a tiny independent nation, immenselyproud of its separate existence and individuality, jealous ofanything that might interfere with this. A mans patriotismwas bounded by the narrow limits of his own colony. He re-garded the others with friendly and perhaps cordial interest, butwas ready enough to quarrel with them on occasion. Interstatedisputes sometimes reached almost to the point of the close of the Revolution, the thirteen States were leagued togetherunder the Articles of Confederation, which at the urgency of Congress they hadadopted in 1781. But the new Congress elected under these Articles was aspowerless as the former one. The jealous States refused it all authority to. ir84 The Story of the Greatest Nations bind their individual actions. This lack of power to enforce its commands hadbeen the great difficulty confronting Congress throughout the war. It or-dered; the States obeyed if they pleased, refusing more often than theycomplied. Congress had thus grown ever weaker. Its promises could not be trusted;its authority was despised. To carry on the war it had been compelled to con-tract enormous debts. Only for the financial ability and generosity of RobertMorris, once the richest man in the country but b
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