Excerpt from What Produced the American Revolution: Oration Delivered at Sag-Harbor, N. Y., On the 5th of July, 1875 That this would be the result was apparent to a few leading minds in Great Britain, such as Chatham, Camden, Barre, and some others, but they were few in number, and wholly without influence. Lord Chatham in Opposing a policy that he could not prevent, predicted the impossibility of conquering America and the philosophic Lord Kames ten years before the outbreak that resulted in Independence, foresaw the future destiny of the American States In a treatise that he has left, entitled the History of Man, published in 17 65, he predicted, in the following remarkable passage, not only the eventual independence of the Colonies, but what is much more remarkable their after form of government. 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.