Chapter Four
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED
Life is a battle and a march—especially public life.
Thorndyke waked the next morning prepared for
both a battle and a march. A glance at the morning
newspapers showed that the country was entirely
with the Congress, and the people, having given
their orders, would see to it that these orders were
promptly obeyed. The Continental press of Europe
with few exceptions barked furiously. The
French newspapers alone retained dignity and good
sense, pointing out the inevitable trend of events,
and advised that, instead of abusing the United
States, they should be copied in that system which
had made them great, not by war, but by peace. The
English newspapers were fair, but in some of them
bitterness was expressed at England being shouldered
out of her place as the greatest of the world-powers
by the young giant of the West. There
