Excerpt from History of the United States of America, Vol. 5 Now at last the great strife was ended, and though the bit termess engendered by it could only wear away with the passing of the generation, every one felt that, as the one and only cause of internecine war had been moved, never again would America witness the scenes of the past eight years. Before reconstruction had been fully accomplished the country turned toaits quadrennial duty of electing a President. 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.