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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
e Chap. III.} wise Providence, according to my idea of it, cannot approve, cannot support, perjury and the suppression of all rights of citizens and of states. Of this principle the example of America is the eloquent proof. England met with her deserts. It was necessary that her pride should be bowed, and that oppressed innocence should carry off the victory. Time cannot outlaw the rights of mankind. Extract of a letter of Ernst, Herzog zu Sachsen, an den Herzog zu Weimar, Gotha, 21 Feb., 1785. Communicated to me by Dr. Burkhardt, in charge of the archives at Weimar. A part of the letter has been already printed in Ranke's Die deutschen Machte, i. 218. The friend to whom these words were addressed was the brave, warm-hearted Charles Augustus of Saxe-Weimar, who, in 1776, being then of only nineteen years, refused a request for leave to open recruiting offices at Ilmenau and Jena for the English service, Wangenheim to the duke, 22 May, 1776. but consented to the delive