The Domestic And Foreign Relations Of The United States Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from America's Foreign Relations, Vol. 1 of 2 It is my purpose to write a History of the Foreign Relations of the United States of America. I shall begin it with some consideration of what I may term the pre-natal influences of the nation, to wit, the relations which existed among the Euro pean powers which preceded this Republic in possession of the land, and Which in an important measure were left as a legacy of good or evil to the United States; and I shall h0pe to com plete it as a continuous and coherent narrative down to our own day. It will be a history for the reading and informa tion of the average lay citizen. Therefore it will not be a tech nical treatise on diplomacy or international law, such as would appeal chiefly to the student, jurist or statesman. Neither will there be any efiort - whi'ch it might be vain for me to make to invest the narrative with such romantic charm or rhetorical art as would commend it to the dilettante or to the seeker after entertainment but would at the same time probably impair its value as a work of serious information. Nor yet shall I seek as a special pleader to depict our country as always wise and just in its dealings with others, or others as necessarily in the wrong in their controversies with America; but I shall sin cerely strive to treat all with impartiality. In brief, I shall aim to make this a popular history in a worthy sense of that too often abused term, intended for popular perusal and ac curate information upon topics which are among at once the most important and the most neglected or most misunderstood in all our national annals. 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.