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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), George (William Frederick) 1737-1820 (search)
from America, nor its independence ever be allowed. Stubbornly blind to well-known facts, he persisted in believing that, with the activity of Clinton, and the Indians in the rear, the provinces, even now, would submit. This obstinacy left him only weak men to support him; for it ranged every able statesman and publicist in the kingdom on the side of the opposition. Wright, in his England under the House of Hanover, says that, notwithstanding the King, in his speech from the throne, Dec. 5, 1783, had said, I have sacrificed every consideration of my own to the wishes and opinions of my people. I make it my humble and earnest prayer to Almighty God that Great Britain may not feel the evils which might result from so great a dismemberment of the empire, and that America may be far from those calamities which have formerly proved, in the mother country, how essential monarchy is to the enjoyment of constitutional liberty. Religion, language, interests, affection may—and I hope wil