Excerpt from Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Vol. 35: From July to December, Inclusive, 1856 With us, also, merchants occupy positions of honor and power - poet tions which they have secured not only by their world-encompassing trade, but by their intelligence, integrity, industry, and benevolence. We upon them, it is true, no titular dignities, though of the only two native Americans in colonial times who received the order of knighthood, one' was a New England merchant, Sir William Pepperell, who left his count ing-room for the camp, and, as lieutenant-general, successfully conducted the expedition against Louisburg, in 1745. The patents of the nobility of our merchants are the heart-engraven records of a grateful people; honors far more valuable than can be found in the rolls of the herald's office, or than can spring from the accolade of a royal sword. Merchants were among the foremost of those who planted the thirteen American colonies. Merchants were among the first to resist the princi ple of taxation without representation - that pivot principle on which turned the revolution. Merchants were among the boldest advocates of American liberty. 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.