Download or read book A New Nation and a New Duty (Classic Reprint) written by William Mackintire Salter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New Nation and a New Duty T I mean those who urged that selfish commercial interests were at the bottom of the war. I do not deny that these played their part, but it was a subordinate one. The fact must not be forgotten that it was just such commercial centers as New York and Boston that particularly opposed the war, so far as opposition was made anywhere. This was a war of the common people, with old-fashioned American ideas about liberty and oppression. They were first really awakened by Senator Proctor's revelations. 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.