Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, Vol. 1: Military Secretary of Washington; At Cambridge; Adjutant; General of the Continental Army; Member of the Congress of the United States; And President of the Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania Such has been my object in this biographical work, its pursuit having cost much labour, spread over a space of nearly twenty years. Of the success of the effort the candid reader must judge. It would be great affectation to disguise the active motives which have stimulated me in the publication of this work. One is altogether personal; and may be candidly described as the pride of ancestry, which every American has a right to cherish, and which, wholly distinct from irrational and offensive boastfulness, may be indulged, so far at least as to guide conduct, elevate the aims of life, and make one ashamed to discredit the examples of the past. It certainly does not weaken patriotic impulses for a man to feel that he and his children bear a patriot´s name; and pride becomes stronger, and surer, and more rational when the world sees on the faithful record of the past how that name was earned. Another motive, less personal, has had great influence; a desire to do justice to my native State, - to Pennsylvania, - a Commonwealth whose claims on the gratitude of posterity for revolutionary services have never been fully acknowledged. While I hope that this solicitude for the good name of Pennsylvania is not in these volumes offensively manifested, I wish very distinctly to avow its influence. 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.
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