Eulogium Upon James Knox Polk, Late President of the U. S (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Eulogium Upon James Knox Polk, Late President of the U. SIn the throes and convulsions which led to the dethronement of Charles and the establishment ofthe Commonwealth in Eng land, many of the bold thinkers and speakers of the times visit ed or were compelled to seek shelter in Holland and Switzer land, where there existed the only resemblances to Republican government then in being. This led them into a fuller and freer inquiry into the true principle upon which alone gov ernment could be founded, to wit, the consent of the govern ed. They found the condition ofeurope, where regal authority had been for centuries trampling on the rights of the people, not a favorable one for the developement of their theory. The dis severy of America, then comparatively recent, opened a new theatre for action. Hither kindred spirits emigrated, and laid the foundations of a future empire, destined to exercise an immense in¿uence on the happiness of the human family. Those foun dations were laid in sound religion, in pure morals, in extended education, and in that love of individual liberty, which has ever been the characteristic of the Anglo Saxon race. The first emi grants were necessarily men of great and indomitable energy, they were fitted by nature, by education, by habits of re¿ection, and by a pure and unostentatious piety, for the great part they were to act, and nobly did they act it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.