Excerpt from The Republic, or a History of the United States of America in the Administrations: From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times When public characters have passed away from the stage of life, and the applause of friendship, as well as the malice of enemies, is heard no more, it has ever been the prerogative of history to rejudge their actions. Elizabeth Hamilton, the charming writer of the Life of Agrippina, puts this sentiment into the mouth of Cordas, a historian. When was there a. Time in human history that the evil, as well as the good, did not live in hope of having their deeds and principles held in higher and more gratifying esteem among other generations of men? The Future has always been the limitless haven of the imagination. In some of its many oblivious recesses the wretched and the wrong have ever looked for escape from what they were, for a reversal of the just judgment of their fellows; and the true and the wronged have believed that here a revision and correction of the misjudgments of their contemporaries would afford them ample compensation for the pangs of the past. 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.