Excerpt from The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries, Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, 1867, Vol. 1 We shall, therefore, earnestly endeavor to make our work indispensable to every one, in all parts of the Union, who shall be interested in any department of the History of our country and we can confidently refer to the present num ber, as an earnest of what it will be, and what it will aim to be, while it shall remain under our control. We have no new promises to make, no old ones to amend; what we promised when we as sumed the control of the Magazine, we have steadily and satisfactorily fulfilled and now re iterate and what we then said of those who pos sessed no sympathy with the Truth, after six months' experience of their pointless abuse, we now simply repeat-this work can neither com mend itself nor prove useful to them and their sympathy and support are neither expected nor solicited. 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.