The United States Of America Vol 5 Of 5

Author : William Torrey Harris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330868621
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book The United States of America, Vol. 5 of 5 written by William Torrey Harris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The United States of America, Vol. 5 of 5: A Pictorial History of the American Nation From the Earliest Discoveries and Settlements to the Present Time When a great war is waged by people of the same race, both contending forces believing their cause to be just, both actuated by the desire to maintain principles handed down to them by their fathers, both defending inherited rights, the contest must of necessity be most intense. The great Civil War, lasting for four long years, drenched the soil with the best blood of our people. Hundreds of thousands of the very flower of American manhood went to untimely graves. The sacrifice brought sorrow and mourning to nearly every home in our land. It involved the vital principles of government, the most important interests of mankind, and the greatest problem of ancient or modern times. The theater of war covered a quarter of a continent, and the final results have been more beneficent, far-reaching, and glorious than those derived from any single achievement in human history. In looking for the causes of that internecine struggle, we must go back more than three centuries, to the time when Charles the Fifth granted a patent to a Flemish merchant to import 4,000. African captives into the American colonies and barter them for money or merchandise. Fourteen were landed at Jamestown, Va., in 1619, against the earnest protest of Captain Miles Kendall, then Deputy Governor of the Colony. From that time the importation of African slaves was carried on along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts for more than 200 years. In the early history of this iniquitous traffic the Northern colonies were as much concerned and as deeply engaged, if not more so, than those of the South; yet, when it ceased to be profitable and became antagonistic to the interests of free labor of the North, it was discontinued there. It still flourished in the more congenial climate of the Southern states, where African labor was supposed to be essential in cultivating and marketing the great products of that section. In the progress of the development of our country there were created what might be called two civilizations one that of the Puritans in the North, and the other that of the Chevaliers in the South. The Puritans, dwelling in the more rigorous climate of the North, were positive in their convictions, industrious, frugal, and strong in their mental and physical development. In the South there was a courteous, chivalrous, brave people, devotedly attached to their traditions and customs, and proud of their ancestry and of their achievements. The two elements were united in all interests except one. Side by side they fought from the pine forests of the North to the palms and cypress of the South to establish their independence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.