Excerpt from Last Leaves of American History: Comprising a Separate History of California
This is an age in which men live in the present, and even in the conjectural future, more than in the past. From the electric rapidity of communication, the news of the world comes every day fresh to our firesides; and we have little leisure for reading more. But since every American, whether for the uses of business or politics, needs the current history of the United States, briefly arranged to his hand, - this volume of its "Last Leaves" has been prepared.
The account of the Mexican war, herein contained, is taken from the author"s history of "The Republic of America;" but that of California is not in any other work. Of the part which follows, a portion is taken from "The Republic," and the remainder is prepared expressly for this book.
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