Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the New-England Society of Brooklyn, December 21, 1849 What race but this, on either side of the Atlantic, has shown the talent to erect, and the ability to pre serve the great fabric of social organization, on the united basis of liberty and law? Not that the English or the anglo-americans were the first to discover and establish the principles of representative government, and popular freedom. In Spain, as the reader of history knows - in Holland still more, perhaps, than in Spain - those principles were understood and enforced. 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.