Excerpt from Parties and Their Principles: A Manual of Political Intelligence, Exhibiting the Origin, Growth, and Character of National Parties In. Its preparation, a determination to confine it to its present limits has been rigidly adhered to; and the difficulty has been, in traversing the vast field of our political record, rather to determine what could be excluded than what should be admit ted. Facts and explanations are condensed into the smallest space consistent with a clear and dis tinct exposition of the origin and growth of parties, their changes and revolutions, and their position on questions of great national interest. 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.