Story of Portugal e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the circumstances it is not strange that a strong democratic feeling should be developed amongst a minority of the better educated people, apart from the recognised political factions; and Republicanism, especially in Oporto, became a popular creed; since the sovereign was by uninformed public opinion um justly held responsible for a state of affairs which had not arisen from any act of his. Nor was this the case only with those who were independent of the principal parliamentary groups. The King was made the scapegoat, even by the regular party that happened to be in opposition at the time; and on some occasions this ungenerous attitude towards.