The star of the West; or, National men and national measures . e has been singularly grateful for his elevationto the papal despot, rather than to the free will ofthe American people. CHAPTER IV. FOURTH YEAR OF PIERCEs ADMINISTRATION. When George the Third, of England, undertookto subdue the American colonies in 1760, andmake them bow to the supremacy of Parliament,he sent regiments of troops to Boston, and hadfourteen war-vessels pointing their broadsides onthe town, to enable his commissioners to extortits unjust taxation; and, the more effectually tofrighten the people into submission, the
The star of the West; or, National men and national measures . e has been singularly grateful for his elevationto the papal despot, rather than to the free will ofthe American people. CHAPTER IV. FOURTH YEAR OF PIERCEs ADMINISTRATION. When George the Third, of England, undertookto subdue the American colonies in 1760, andmake them bow to the supremacy of Parliament,he sent regiments of troops to Boston, and hadfourteen war-vessels pointing their broadsides onthe town, to enable his commissioners to extortits unjust taxation; and, the more effectually tofrighten the people into submission, the kingssentries paraded the streets, and compelled thepeople to have a permit from these red-coats to goto their business places. So, Franklin Pierce has sought, by a similarpolicy, to terrify the American people now, bydealing with them as a nation of serfs. The onlyprinciple of action to which he has been constanthas been that Mhich intermeddled with the federaland state elections. For this he violated all thecompromises of the constitution. For this he fra-. •JCJBnlttB
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