Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 322 of the 1990 Liberty Fund edition of David Ramsay’s 1789 The History of the American Revolution; Ramsay here writes about the few weeks and months immediately following the promulgation of the Declaration of Independence:

The flattering prospects of an extensive commerce freed from British restrictions, and the honours and emoluments of office in independent states now began to glitter before the eyes of the colonists, and reconciled them to the difficulties of their situation.

DBx: Pictured here is David Ramsay (1749-1815).