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Excerpt from A Guide to the Right Understanding of Our American Union, or Political, Economical and Literary Miscellanies: Dedicated to the Young Men of America Writer was never the disciple of any party, and hence never wrote for victory, but for the elicitation of truth, while much in the articles that seems partisan, the author wrote before the advocated tenets were adopted by any party. Territorial self-government, for instance, on which Mr. Buchanan has been elected President, is advocated in the piece entitled The Wilmot Proviso, but the author pub lished it under his own signature, August 24th, 1847, be ing several months before the first advocacy of the princi ple by Senators Cass and Dickinson, whose conspicuous position arrested thereto partisan attention. The pieces are reprinted substantially as they were originally publish ed ia various periodicals, when the respective topics engaged public attention; but they are arranged in an order dicta ted by the topics, the papers relating to the General Gov ernment being placed before those relating to the State and the Miscellaneous articles being grouped together after the Political and they are all now respectfully dedicated to the young men of America as aids to re ection. 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."