Leaves From a Lawyers Life Afloat And Ashore

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " History is false to her trust when she betrays the cause of truth, even under the influence of patriotic impulses. It is not true that all the virtue was in the Whig camp [during the Eevolution,] or that the Tories were a horde of ruffians. They were conservatives, and their error was in carrying to excess the sentiment of loyalty [to their King, just as the error of the Confederates lay in carrying to excess the sentiment of loyalty to the State,] which is founded in virtue. Their constancy embittered the contest. Their cause deserved to fail; but their sufferings are entitled to respect. Prejudice has blackened their name; but history will speak of them as they were, with their failings and their virtues."?James L. Pettigeu. "We have, we can have, no barbarian memory of wrongs, for which brave men have