...mmon flesh and blood, very ignorant, very much embarrassed, many of them unlettered, and many educated just to that point where men are silly, visionary, dogmatic and impracticable. Hildreth, the America n historian, has made a very just remark, which describes the cause of the unpopularity of his own compositions. He says: In dealing with our revolutionary annals, a great difficulty had to be encou...