Excerpt from Sketches of the Life of Martin Van Buren, President of the United States
At a time when faction has dared to go the length of printing and publishing a book, purporting to be the Life of Martin Van Buren, by Wm. M. Holland, which contains the falsehoods and misrepresentations common to the newspaper press of that faction and none of which can be found in the book published by Professor Holland, it is high time that some friend of truth should come forward to the rescue of the character of that man, whose private conduct is not only unexceptionable, but highly praiseworthy - whose political career has been consistent and patriotic, though perhaps viewed in a different light by those whose political sentiments are antagonistical to his.
The whole political course of the subject of the following Sketches, has been Democratic; and his exertions in propagating these principles and establishing systems upon them, have been, perhaps, more successful than those of any other in the state of which he is a native. Nor has his disinterestedness been less prominent than his success - he having on various occasions sacrificed self-interest to true patriotism.
Justice to the individual, then, as well as reverence for and adhesion to his principles, which he has promulgated and established, requires that his course through life should be honestly and impartially laid before his fellow citizens, that they may be enabled to form a correct judgment of the merits and character of the man.
It is much to be regretted that the task has not fallen into abler hands.
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