Excerpt from History of the United States of America, Vol. 5: Under the Constitution
The present and concluding volume of this work has been based, like its predecessors, upon a diligent examination of all accessible material bearing upon the period described. The various authorities will be found cited in proper place; and among those whose personal suggestions have been of especial aid to me, acknowledgments are due to Hon. Robert C. Winthrop and Hon. Frederick W. Seward. Necessarily, in tracing out the leading influences of the epoch described, I have largely consulted the current newspapers and magazines, for there was no book to serve as a sure pilot; but in doing so I have endeavored to sift carefully the mass of testimony and reduce it to its true historical value.
Whether the pleasant labor of these many years be well or ill performed, I may claim without inordinate vanity that the first era of oar national and independent existence has been traced out for the first time, and the long intervening chasm bridged from the Revolution to the Civil War, with historical painstaking, in the five volumes of the present work. Others may have undertaken the task, but they have not (so far as I am aware) fully performed it; nor have I profited in any way by their investigations, whether conducted before or after me. Something of careful, consecutive research for full three quarters of a century is required to bring the two grand revolutions of American annals into their fit correlation.
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