Excerpt from An Address: Delivered Before the Democratic Citizens of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, at East Abington, July 4, 1839 The people of Europe are now repeating the truths expressed in the declaration, with an earnestness and a boldness which give assurance that they under stand and feel their true weight and force. At a dinner recently given to Joseph Hume, at Bristol, in England, which was numerously attended, one of the regular toasts, prepared by the committee of arrangements, was, The people - the true source of all legitimate power. And in offering this toast to the company, Sir Edward Codrington, who presided, said, he conceived that every man, tolerably well ao quainted with politics, would at once admit, that all power was derived from the people, and that, if the people of England said they would have no sovereign, but a republic, they had a right to make the change. 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.