Milestones of US History - Essay Example

Though the British forces had won the war the repercussions of war were never good for the Americans as Sugar Act and various other steps were taken to crush the American natives. Thomas Paine published pamphlets to stimulate revolt against British rule due to the ongoing situation and in response to the pamphlet Charles Inglis wrote arguments in favor of reconciliation with Britain.

“Declaring independence by the Americans was not favorable due to insufficiency of resources and it came up with many challenges. So in short term, reconciliation was the remaining workable option”.

According to Charles Inglis (1776), the attainment of independence by America would create huge economic challenges that it would not be able to meet without British support. Britain would support the American trade because of its widely developed naval force and seamen otherwise American trading ships would be at risk. Reconciliation would also bring peace that could result in demolishing war tax and promotion of trade. Many human lives had been lost and further turmoil would endanger several lives as well, hence peace could serve as the only possible solution (Oakes).

During the 1760s, Jefferson, Hamilton, Paine, and many other revolutionists were of the view that independence from British rule could give due rights to common people and would cultivate egalitarianism. However, Inglis was of the view that turmoil and use of force would only be accelerated because of the declaration of independence and unrest would never end the claims to vanish slavery. Further, it would disunite the people of America and progress would be hindered while the distribution of wealth would remain the same as it were under British rule. Post-revolution time revealed the fact that wealth distribution had not been changed as was claimed by the revolutionists (Lecture Note: Post Revolution).

Inglis was also of the view that proved right with the time that none of the European nations would like to trade with America due to the unhealthy economic situation of an embryonic state. After the revolution, America was unable to gain international trade of the debts were not paid off that was taken during the time of revolution (Lecture Note: Post Revolution).