Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the Union League of Philadelphia: From Its Origin and Foundation to the Year 1882
The voluntary banding together Of citizens to aid the government of their country is characteristic Of our age and Of the growth Of liberty. History shows many ex amples Of heroic devotion to arbitrary rulers on the part Of cities or peoples; but the spectacle of private citizens uniting to take on themselves a portion Of the cares and expenses of the established government is reserved for those times and countries in Which the people themselves create the government and are represented in all its branches.
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