Addresses and orations of Rufus Choate

"THE history of the United States, from the planting of the several Colonies out of which they have sprung, to the end of the war of the Revolution, is now as amply written, as accessible, and as authentic, as any other portion of the history of the world, and incomparably more no than an equal portion of the history of the origin and first ages of any other nation that ever existed."