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[Kavanagh <pa...@la...>]

Iter's notice, which discusses the point under consideration, and
expresses similar views with those here stated. An extract from it is
given to show how the question is viewed from a British stand-point:
'The principle of American independence was, that when a considerable
body of men are badly governed and oppressed by a government under which
they live, they have a right to resist and withdraw from it; and unless
everything in the history of England of which we have been accustomed to
boast, from Magna Charta to the Reform Bill, was a crime, this principle
is perfectly true. To deny to the United States, as most of our public
writers did deny to them, the right of putting down resistance not
justified by oppression, and to impose upon them the duty of submitting
at once to any resistance whatsoever, whether justified or not, was
equivalent to maintaining that