The Half Century: Or, a History of the Changes That Have Taken Place, and Events That Have Transpired, Chiefly in the United States, Between 1800 and 1850 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Half Century: Or, a History of the Changes That Have Taken Place, and Events That Have Transpired, Chiefly in the United States, Between 1800 and 1850

The movements which have rendered the past half century remarkable, have apparently arisen from the struggling up into the distinct consciousness of the community of three ideas, and from attempts, more or less definite, to realize those ideas.

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