Excerpt from Valor and Victory, Vol. 10: The Age of Vindication; 1783-1824 In the eyes of Europe the entire principle underlying popular government was on trial and to an extent still is. It was regarded as a mischievous experiment from the point of view of monarchists; a dangerous one in the opin ion of many lovers of liberty. The new nation was not yet nationalized. It was a dissociated group of republics rather than itself a republic. The very feeling of its people had not become American. Even after the fine learning of the Fathers of the Constitution had evolved popular govern ment from a profound knowledge of the failures of all former republican systems, the two political parties which sprang into being were, respectively, British and French, not American. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.