Excerpt from History of Washington, Vol. 5: The Rise and Progress of an American State
He, then, who leaves in available form, for those who shall hereafter write the history of his own time, such authen tic information as he may obtain about those Whom he knew personally, and who were the active workers in the period which he cannot View, as a historian should, with an unpre judiced eye, by so much helps those who shall succeed him. In the preparation of the preceding volumes I was greatly assisted by the biographies published by Elwood Evans, and others of my predecessors, as supplements to their works, and I can discharge the obligation I owe them in no better way than by leaving something of a similar kind to those who come after me.
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