Excerpt from History of the Late War, Between the United States and Great Britain: Containing a Minute Account of the Various Military and Naval Operations, Illustrated With Plates The obstinate persistance of Great Britain in her pre tensions to this prerogative, first broke the ties of depen dence, which it was so much her interest to preserve, and her subsequent illiberal policy, has tended to weaken the influence of affinity, which a true wisdom would have taught her to cherish. Why is it that the enmity of those, between whom there naturally exist the most numerous bonds of friendship, is the most bitter? It is because each of these is a distinct cord which may vibrate to the feelings of hatred, as well as of love. With China, with Turkey, with France, we may be governed by temporary and varying policy, but towards England we can never feel indifference. Why then has England taken so much pains, to make us hate her as a nation? The grievances of which we have to complain, by frequent recital, have grown wearisome to the car. There always existed, and still exist, numerous ties to attach us to Britain, which nothing but her ungenerous and unnatural policy, can weaken or destroy. Her wisest and best men foretold to her, the consequences of the usurpations which led to our independence, and yet she still continued to afflict us, with every species of irritating and insulting deport ment, and then at last complained of our unnatural con duct, in refusing to bear it any lon er. 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.