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Excerpt from The Burlingame Mission: A Political Disclosure, Supported by Official Documents, Mostly Unpublished The introductory and concluding remarks of the essay, here offered to the Public, leave the writer but little to say by way of preface. The book, indeed, is one of a. Class, which have to tell their own tale. No one can be more sensible of its defects and shortcomings, in part owing to its long protracted progress through the press and other exceptional circumstances, than is the author himself: yet, taking it all in all, he ventures. To think that, throwing, as it does. 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.