tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813627534410468466.post5393707035866377519..comments2023-10-31T08:51:27.154-07:00Comments on 1776-THE MUSICAL: I See FireworksJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12352104716026328169noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813627534410468466.post-74023386128879663892007-05-03T06:14:00.000-07:002007-05-03T06:14:00.000-07:00Adams was prescient in other matters as well. As ...Adams was prescient in other matters as well. As a student, he wrote to a friend that he believed America could someday become the dominant power in the world, much the way Britain was then. He saw it as part of the natural evoluation of mankind toward freedom, however; not the thinly veiled imperialism it was to become.<BR/><BR/>He also predicted that if the slavery clause was cut from the Declaration, the U.S would pay dearly for it a hundred years hence--predicting the Civil War and only missing it by a decade or so.<BR/><BR/>DoakDoakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05536253117093993493noreply@blogger.com