Excerpt from The Lives of the Present Candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States, Containing a Condensed and Impartial History of the Lives, Public Acts, and Political Views of the Present Candidates
The volume hero presented to the reader has been compiled with great care from the most authentic sources, and is designed to afford a comprehensive view of the principal incidents in the lives of the distinguished citizens who have been named in connection with the offices of President and Vice-President, has not been the aim to furnish mere empty and sounding eulogy, but in an impartial and candid manner to state the principles of parties, and to describe such traits of character in the respective leaders as entitle them to be considered representative men. The object has been to make such a volume as will be useful to the reader by compressing within as narrow a compass as possible the political as well as private history of the times, past and present, in which the distinguished gentlemen selected as standard-bearers by their respective parties, took an active part. Strict impartiality has been observed, and no disposition has been experienced to set forth the claims of the one in more vivid colors, through the disparagement of the other.
The order of arrangement has been in conformity to the order of the nominations, without regard to any preference for individuals or Parties , which have not been permitted to exert the slightest influence upon these pages. Biographers are riot expected to be very diligent in excluding terms of glowing eulogy of their subjects, but everything of the kind has been, as far as practicable, carefully avoided here, the main purpose being to set forth in plain, unostentatious narrative, the interesting events of the several lives, leaving the inferences and deductions to be drawn by the reader. All the authentic sources of information at hand have been carefully examined, and it is confidently claimed that a useful book is here presented, although it may not be considered very ornamental.
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