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Excerpt from Addresses Delivered by Ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana: On February 22, 1921
Less than two years after Washington took command, the British Government was eager to stop the war on any terms, excepting only American independence. At the blackest hourof the Revolution, Washington could yet have had a Victor's peace, had he consented that America should remain within the British Empire. To passionate appeals to thus end the war, the only answer made by that captain of our fate was the thunder of the American cannon at Monmouth; So, at last, came the American Nation. 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.