The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
738 Chapter XXX for the Irish House of Commons—though not to be elected to it. They could now become members of municipal corpor ...
Britain 739 Anglo- Irish authorities, who now had evidence against various English and Irish conspirators. Benjamin Vaughan, Ham ...
740 Chapter XXX revolution were well advanced in 1797. An expedition of almost 15,000 troops was organized with a minimum of Fre ...
Britain 741 As it turned out, the French went to Egypt, and all that happened, so far as in- vasion of Ireland was concerned, or ...
742 Chapter XXX for those in America in 1776. After the French showed their intentions, however, at Bantry Bay in December 1796, ...
Britain 743 intervention gradually faded; it remained faintly alive for weeks, while Bonaparte and his army were at sea, until t ...
744 Chapter XXX them was that “an Irish democratic republic, or rather anarchy, must be the first and instant consequence of our ...
CHAPTER XXXI AMERICA: DEMOCRACY NATIVE AND IMPORTED Beware, ye American aristocrats! Your principles and efforts are leading you ...
746 Chapter XXXI Europe before 1789, after that year the direction was reversed. If, as Barruel said, the “sect” had first shown ...
America 747 tocracy had been displaced, and an ideal of equality as well as of liberty had been affirmed. The great question in ...
748 Chapter XXXI Various conspiracies were discovered further south, all purely local and momen- tary. There was one at Quito in ...
America 749 had learned that the Pope had been ejected from Rome, and that the French were about to invade England. Some thought ...
750 Chapter XXXI and other French West Indian colonies. Such men, if not exactly fervent republi- cans, were no lovers of Englan ...
America 751 ists as William Smith, helped to inoculate the Canadiens against sympathy for the new France. The two countries, rep ...
752 Chapter XXXI country west of the Alleghenies from the United States.^8 Meanwhile George Rogers Clark, the conqueror of the I ...
America 753 of slaves for liberty, having nothing to do with American politics, was not even to be dignified by the epithet of J ...
754 Chapter XXXI more modern than England in other important respects: it now represented a so- ciety in which tradition had bee ...
America 755 ated, the establishment of a bank under federal charter, the introduction of excises and import duties to produce re ...
756 Chapter XXXI eign powers, which were very real, may have contributed, by creating national par- ties to debate national issu ...
America 757 the cities in America were still small compared with those of Europe in any case; and the broad features of the tran ...
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