Excerpt from History of the Life and Times of James Madison, Vol. 2
The second volume of the "History of the Life of Madison," prepared for the press more than four years ago, in the state in which it is here given, but prevented from publication by the inauspicious circumstances of the times, is now submitted to the judgment of the reader. It comprehends the most instructive, and, in a civil and political view, the most eventful period of American annals, - from the close of the war of the Revolution, down to and including the formation and establishment of the Constitution of the United States. It was during this period that the embarrassments and disorders incident to the imperfect system of confederation by which the States were held together - kept in check, while the war was in progress, by the spirit of union and strenuous patriotism awakened by the crisis - at length broke out in all their nakedness and force.
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