The United Empire Loyalists

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Excerpt from The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration Within recent years, however, there has been a change. American historians of a new school have revised the history of the Revolu tion, and a tardy reparation has been made to the memory of the Tories of that day. Tyler, Van Tyne, Flick, and other writers have all made the amende honorable on behalf of their countrymen. Indeed, some of these writers, in their anxiety to stand straight, have leaned backwards, and by no one perhaps will the ultra-tory view of the Revolution be found so clearly expressed as by them. At the same time the history of the Revolution has been rewritten by some English historians and we have a writer like Lecky declaring that the American Revolution was the work of an energetic minority, who succeeded in committing an undecided and ¿uctuating majority to courses for which they had little love, and leading them step by step to a position from which it was impossible to re cede) Thus, in the United States and in England, the pendulum has swung from one extreme to the other. In Canada it has remained stationary. There, in the country where they settled, the United Empire Loyalists are still regarded with an uncritical veneration which' has in it something of the spirit of primitive ancestor-worship. The interest which Cana dians have taken in the Loyalists has been either patriotic or genealogical, and few attempts have been made to tell their story in the cold light of impartial history, or to estimate the results which have ¿owed from their migration. Yet such an attempt is worth while making - an attempt to do the United Empire Loyalists the honour of painting them as they were, and of describ ing the profound and far-reaching in¿uences which they exerted on the history of both Canada and the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.