Excerpt from The History of North America, Vol. 13: The Growth of the Nation, 1837 to 1860 In the present volume, however, we have other points of stress. The personal element gives place to party rule principles and not men play the leading part in directing national affairs. The material progress of the people save in isolated instances, runs in the directions, even if it does not follow the grooves, established by the years of the first period of Growth; policies strike out independent orbits; measures burst the trammels set upon them during the years ending with 18 37 - it is the era of change in political movements. 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.