Our Country and Government for One Hundred Years: A Review of the Colonial and Constitutional Governments (1879)

by Frank Chapman Bliss

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Excerpt from Our Country and Government for One Hundred Years: A Review of the Colonial and Constitutional Governments and National Progress of the United States; With Biographical Sketches of the Presidents and Presidential Candidates of 1876 In its arrangement he has adopted the simplest form; that of placing events as much as possible in their chronological order, commencing with the Colonial Government, and bring ing it down to the present time; introducing the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, &c., in their appropriate places. In preparing the Biographical Sketches of the Presidents, and of the Candidates recently nominated for the Presidency and vice-presidency, he has endeavored to do equal justice to all, giving the facts, without favor or prejudice, and not at all biassed by party views or interest. The Statistical matter has been obtained from reliable and official sources, and great pains has been taken to make it correct in every particular. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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. Read Less

Excerpt from Our Country and Government for One Hundred Years: A Review of the Colonial and Constitutional Governments and National Progress of the United States; With Biographical Sketches of the Presidents and Presidential Candidates of 1876 In its arrangement he has adopted the simplest form; that of placing events as much as possible in their chronological order, commencing with the Colonial Government, and bring ing it down to the present time; introducing the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Articles of ... Read More