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inhabitants were a few scattered tribes of feeble barbarians, destitute of commerce and of political connection.
The axe and the ploughshare were unknown.
The soil, which had been gathering fertility from the repose of centuries, was lavishing its strength in magnificent but useless vegetation.
In the view of civilization the immense domain was a solitude.
It is the object of the present work to explain how the change in the condition of our land has been accomplished; and, as the fortunes of a nation are not under the control of blind destiny, to follow the steps by which a favoring Providence, calling our institutions into being, has conducted the country to its present happiness and glory.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1859.
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