HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF America, FROM THE FIRST DISCOVERY TO THE FOURTH OF MARCH, 1825. 7 BY RÈV. CHARLES A. GOODRICH. WITH ENGRAVINGS. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY RUSSELL ROBBINS. 1825. L. I. DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, B. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighth day of March, in the fortyseventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, Rev. Charles A Goodrich, of the said District bath. deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following-to wit: "A history of the United States of America, by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich, with engravings." In conformity to the Act of the Cougrem of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maya, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned " CHAS. A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Cennecticut. A true copy of Record, examined and sealed by me. CHAS. A. INGERSOLI., Clark of the District of Connecticut. SOME time since, the author published a History of the United States for schools, the plan of which, though novel, met with general approbation. Encouraged by this sanction of a work, originally offered with much diffidence, the author ventures to bring before the public the present volume, founded upon the work above-mentioned, but somewhat expanded, both in respect to leading facts, and minute details. As to the views which led the author to adopt a plan, in treating a historical subject, so widely departing from precedent and authority, he would refer to his preface to the school book for an explanation. Whether these views will satisfy every one of the excellence of the plan, or not, it is hoped, that they may at least rescue the work from being classed with that deluge of publications, which inundate the country, and which seem to have no better origin than conceit, or pe cuniary speculation. For the benefit of the reader who may not advert to the work already mentioned, the following explanations may be necessary. This history of the United States is divided into eleven periods--each distinguished by some |