An Abridged History of the United States

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Excerpt from An Abridged History of the United States: For the Use of Schools The present "Abridged History of the United States" has been prepared, at the request of teachers, for the use of those pupils whose time at school is too short for the author's larger work on the same subject. It is hoped that in relieving the scholars of the burden of many details nothing of permanent importance has been neglected, and the story has been made clearer as well as easier to remember. For nearly ten years the original work upon which this is founded has enjoyed high favor in the Catholic institutions of our own and other countries, and the distinctive features for which it has been most warmly praised are retained and enlarged in the new companion-publication. In a time when exaggerated respect is paid to wealth, enterprise, and material progress, and even school-books teach American lads to boast of the national faculty for getting rich, our young people cannot be too carefully reminded that the true glory of America does not lie in such things , and the author has sought to keep the moral and religious history of the country in its due prominence. In particular he has spared no pains to show the distinguished part which Catholic missionaries, explorers, soldiers, statesmen, patriots, and scholars have had in the making of the United States, and to insist upon the great fact that the growth of the American Church has kept steady pace with the development of a free and happy nation. 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.