Excerpt from Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register: A Work in Which the Principal Events of Every Half-Year Occurring in the United States Are Recorded, Each Arranged Under the Day of Its Date; Events Transpiring Between the 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860 The author has taken particular pains to be correct; yet he cannot flatter him self that his work is free from error. There may also be crudeness in the forma tion of some of the sentences relating the circumstances; for he has not felt him self at liberty - unless the rules of the language were too notoriously violated - to alter the expressions of the sources from which he obtained his information. His great aim has been to set forth truly the events of the day without reference to elegance of language. In succeeding volumes he intends to give an epitome of foreign as well as of domestic events, so as to make the book a complete history of the half-year. The author hopes in every succeeding number to make some improvement, and to render each succeeding volume more acceptable to the reader. 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.