Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ajority ofinstances, indeed, those journals are theonly sources from which life-like picto-rial descriptions of American history, and DEDICATION. 15 that of other nations as weU, can bedrawn
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ajority ofinstances, indeed, those journals are theonly sources from which life-like picto-rial descriptions of American history, and DEDICATION. 15 that of other nations as weU, can bedrawn. Timely Appearance of the Work. Without egotism or boastfulness, it maybe claimed for this work, in conclusion,that, original and unique in plan, rich inits varied and ample contents, and unsur-passed in abundant ornamentation, its ap-pearance at the close of the Grand Na-tional Era was peculiarly called for; — itbeing confidently believed that, under the stimulus of the universal celebration ofthe Great Commemorative Anniversary,throughout all the borders of the land,and on a scale of magnificence becomingthe most powerful, happy, and prosperousnation on the face of the globe, public at-tention would naturally be directed to thedesirableness of just such a Memorial ofthat eventful centenary period which theDay of Jubilee—July Fourth, 1876,—rounds out to full-orbed M.
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