Excerpt from The Life of Young Sir Henry Vane: Governor of Massachusetts Bay, and Leader of the Long Parliament, With a Consideration of the English Commonwealth as a Forecast of America IT fell to the present writer, a few years since, to prepare a life Of Samuel Adams (american States men series, Houghton, Mifflin and Company), who, according to his kinsman john Adams, was the wedge that Split apart America from the land of our fathers. It falls to the writer now to prepare a life Of young Sir Henry Vane, of whom it has been said that his name is the most appropriate link to bind us to the land Of our fathers. To treat each of these great historic figures has been for the writer a grateful task. There are few in America, perhaps at the present time there are few in England, who think it not well that England and America were severed. As to the usefulness of the work in which Samuel Adams was a main agent, doubt is not Often enter tained. But how as to the coming together again Of the english-speaking race into some kind Of a bond, moral if not political? Are there many who think it either feasible or desirable? 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.