Excerpt from The Life and Public Services of James Buchanan
As Mr. Buchanan has ever shunned publicity, and always been averse to courting public favor through the press, no account of his life and important public ser vices to his country, through so many years of active and devoted labors, has been previously published. The writer has, therefore, been compelled to rely mostly upon the simple record of the Congressional proceedings, and a fe...
Excerpt from Youth's History of the Great Civil War in the United States: From 1861 to 1865
Many histories Of the great war through which we have just passed have already been written, but they are not such as convey to the youth of our land a full and true account of the causes which led to it, who were the real authors of it, and what were its Objects and purposes. To understand fully the causes which produced it, we must go back a good way...
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