Excerpt from The Life of Horace Binney: With Selections From His Letters The problems which now confront the American people are some of them the same as those of Mr. Binney's time (many parts of his anti - protection memorial of 1824s, for instance, might have been written to-day), while others are due to developments then scarcely contemplated; but in the case of all it is probable that the best solutions will be found to be those which accord with the fundamental principles upon which the government of this country was originally based. Those principles are perhaps more closely studied to-day, even by men who differ widely in the application of them, than at any time since the Civil War. To see how those principles shaped themselves in the mind of a man born while the cause of American Independence was still trem bling in the balance may, therefore, be a matter of more than trivial interest; and if anything contained 'in this memoir prove an aid to the proper carrying out of those principles, or an incentive to their further study, its publication will have been amply justified. 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.