Eighteen Presidents

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Excerpt from Eighteen Presidents: And Contemporaneous Rulers As we are now entering upon the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of our Independence Day, which will occur on the Fourth of July, 1876, a brief review of our past history, as regards those who have ruled us during the century cannot but be appropriate. Thirteen years after the date of our "Declaration, " having established a Constitution, which superseded our Articles of Confederation, - which though not "without form" were very nearly "void, " as far as their injunctions and requisitions on the States were regarded, - thirteen years after the "Declaration, " our first President was inaugurated. As the present incumbent will be President until the 4th of March, 1877, and continue in office during the Centennial period, it is proposed to briefly sketch each of our eighteen Chief Magistrates, who they were, how they were "armed and equipped" for their great offices, and how each obtained his distinguished honors, with brief reference, by way of parallel, to the contemporaneous rulers of the leading powers of Europe. It would seem that the hereditary rulers of the Old World, about the time we had, through eight years of suffering and sacrifice, and the life-blood of thousands of brave men, secured the right to select our own rulers, were worse than the average of those who claim to rule by divine right. 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.