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Title: 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
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Philadelphia to plan a stronger union.The diflSculties in the way of such a union soon showed them-selves almost insurmountable. Xo State was willing to sur-render its own power or its own peculiar institutions. Morethan once the convention almost disbanded in despair. In this diflficult moment Benjamin Franklin proved him-self again, as he had so often before, the shrewdest and wisestof our patriots. On his return from establishing our treatiesabroad, he had been made Governor of Penn.sylvania, his homeState. He was also a member of the Constitutional Conven-tion, and its chief members often gathered round his tea tablein Philadelphia to discuss their plans. Franklin, though overeighty years old, was the leading spirit in all these arguments.He was a constant advocate of compromse, urging each sideto yield .somewhat, even of its most cherished convictions, soas to enable all to reach a common giound of union. It hasoften been said that Franklin argued our Constitution intoexistence.
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The United States—Rise of the Democracy i593 sailed with a violence of language which, as he sadly protested, could scarcelybe applied to a Nero, to a __notorious defaulter, or even to a common pick-pocket. Genets outrageous insults to the Government, however, caused a reactionin its favor; men were resolved to protect it from such contempt. EvenJefferson repudiated Genet, and retained a place in Washingtons cabinet untilthe tumult was over. But the ever-widening divergence between his views andthose of the rest of the Presidents advisers made his position so impossiblethat he soon afterward resigned. In addition to Jeffersons anti-Federalism and French sympathies, a thirdand even more deep-rooted difference of sentiment led to this division. Wash-ington and the Federalists generally were afraid to trust the common people.They thought the views of the ignorant must necessarily be narrow, bounded bythe immediate interests of the moment, easily swayed by demagogues, andreadily carried

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