Excerpt from A Brief Dissertation on the Rise and Vicissitudes of the United States: With Portraits of Forty American Statesmen, Whose Lives Illume Four Epochs of American History It is not necessary to the purposes here in hand to do more than merely allude to the history of the thirteen colonies from their settle ment down to the time when the so-called mother country, through its King and Parliament, attempted to extend and exercise an unwarrant able jurisdiction over them. But it is assumed that from that time say 1761 - a few words may not be out of place, with regard to the rise and vicissitudes of the United States, and the statesmen who made its history. 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.