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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 21: (search)
w to be happy without kings Chap. XXI.} 1781. and without priests. Raynal, IX. 18, ed. 1781. Philosophy, he wrote, desires to see all governments just, and all peoples happy. If the love of justice had decided the court of Versailles to the alliance of a monarchy with a people defending its liberty, the first article of its treaty with the United States should have been, that all oppressed peoples have the right to rise against their oppressors. Ibid., 305, ed. 1781. The advocate-general Segur having drawn up the most minatory indictment, Raynal left his book to be burned by the hangman, and fled through Brussels to Holland. The book went into many a library, and its proscription found for it new readers. The young men of France, even of the nobility, shared its principles, Memoires de Segur, i. 264. which infiltrated themselves through all classes. The new minister of the marine had in the army of Rochambeau a son, whom sons of the new minister of war and the Duke de