Excerpt from American Historical Documents 1000-1904 NO final history Of the United States Of America has been written, or is likely to be written. Research is constantly bringing to light new facts that correct details or modify the traditional view of larger ques tions; and the most impartial historian is subject to personal or sec tional bias which leads to his works being regarded as imperfect by another generation, or as unfair by the people Of parts of the country other than his own. In such a series as the present, then, it is unwise to represent the story of the growth of this nation by the summary of any one scholar. 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.