[7] Green's History of the English People, vol. i., p. 90.

[8] Reeves, History of the English Law, Finlason, vol. i., p. 161.

[9] Blackstone's Com., vol. i., p. 128 et seq.

[10] A recent instance is Sir George Otto Trevelyan's American Revolution. Still later, however, is the work of Edmund Smith, England and America after Independence, a strong and bold defence of English policy after the separation.

[11] See Mr. Webster's speech on the Presidential Protest, Works, vol. iv., p. 109.

[12] Mommsen.

[13] Tennyson—Locksley Hall.

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CHAPTER IV
THE INHERENT NATURAL REASONS OR SYMPATHETIC CAUSES WHICH SUSTAIN A UNION, AND WHICH SUPPORT THE HISTORICAL GROWTH AND TENDENCY TO THE SAME END EXAMINED