Excerpt from History or the United States: From the Discovery of America to the Close of the Year 1862; For the Use of Schools The compiler of the following pages, during his long experience as a teacher, often felt the necessity of a text book which should give a correct and lucid exposition of American history. He found the youthful memory burdened with extra neons matter, clogged with abstractions, and wearied with the petty details of colonial government. If History is Philosophy teaching by example, it should appear to us in a pure and truthful garb, unsullied by party prejudice or sectarian bigotry. 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.