Union and Democracy

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Union and Democracy,by Allen JohnsonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: Union and DemocracyAuthor: Allen JohnsonRelease Date: August 30, 2007 [eBook #22461]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNION AND DEMOCRACY*** E-text prepared by G. Edward Johnson, Stacy Brown,and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team(http://www.pgdp.net) Thomas JeffersonFrom the original portrait by Stuart, at Bowdoin College.signature, Th. JeffersonUNION AND DEMOCRACYBYALLEN JOHNSONPROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORYYALE UNIVERSITYThe RiversidePress logoHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANYBOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGOThe Riverside Press CambridgeCOPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ALLEN JOHNSONALL RIGHTS RESERVEDThe Riverside PressCAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTSU. S. A.PREFACEThe title of this volume must be regarded as suggestive rather than as strictly accurate, for the beginnings of union are tobe found farther back than 1783, and democracy in its largest sense has even yet been only imperfectly realized. At theclose of the Revolution, union was but a name. What Metternich said of the Italy of his day might have been said of theUnited States in 1783: it was only a geographical ...