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great, prosperous, and happy country—a

pattern to the nations—would she have been!

“But a blind and inexorable bigotry chased

from her soil every teacher of virtue, every

champion of order, every honest defender of

the throne; it said to the men who would

have made their country a ‘renown and glory’

in the earth, Choose which you will have, a

stake or exile. At last the ruin of the state was

complete; there remained no more

conscience to be proscribed; no more religion

to be dragged to the stake; no more

patriotism to be chased into banishment.”—

Wylie, b. 13, ch. 20. And the Revolution, with

all its horrors, was the dire result.

“With the flight of the Huguenots a general

decline settled upon France. Flourishing

manufacturing cities fell into decay; fertile

districts returned to their native wildness;