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Mother America - Realities of American Life as Seen by an Indian
1934
Summary
The author has tried to understand the History the traditions the struggles and the aspirations of the citizens of the New World. [...] The years that followed the conclusion of the war were the most trying in the history of the Republic. [...] The difficulties of the situation were increased by the fact that the late comers were crowded into the cities of the Eastern part of the country. [...] necessary for one people to dissolve the political_ bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of makind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. [...] Professor Dodd of the University of Chicago in a recent magazine article points out that of the three million Colonists quite half of them were ' either opposed to the movement or quite out of heart about it; and the half was becoming two—thirds as the year 1777 advanced and great British armies the one from New York the other from Canada converged upon the better part of the revolutionists ne
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