President Reed of Pennsylvania: A Repy to Mr. George Bancroft and Others; February, A. D. 1867 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In his honoured grave, I am called on to vindi cate his name. Instead of partisan misrepresentation (to use a mild word,) being allowed to die with the passions of a period of revolutionary excitement, it has been industriously kept alive, until at last, in the second and almost the third generation, the necessity of correct ing and repelling it has arisen. There is,'in this country, a class of men, happily not numerous, who take pleasure in disparaging the accredited patriots of the first revolution. They do so either from hereditary or personal animosity, or on a principle of paradox and contradiction. They have two words of detraction for each one of praise which filial pride, or any good motive prompts, and their de light is to rummage in forgotten libels. For them, the acrimonious pamphlets of past time, scraps of discredi table and hostile diaries and letters are cherished treas ures. They are a fund on which they draw freely. Sometimes they forge.

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