Excerpt from Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher: His Political and Military Career; With Selections From His Speeches and Writings How it comes to pass that the author has nu dertaken the task can be brie y stated. It is, with him, a work of love and duty. A tribute to a friendship cemented in years gone by, and enduring all days, even to the sorrowful end. 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."

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... EXTRACTS FROM HOLIDAYS IN COSTA RICA. BY THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER. [From Harper's Magazine.] ENTRANCE TO COSTA RICA. The principal entrance at present into Costa Rica is from the Pacific, at Punta Arenas, in the Gulf of Nicoya. The Columbus, a deliberate old barque through which a screw has been thrust, brought us, early in March, 1858, from Panama to Punta Arenas in less than three days. The trip was delightful. The coast-range of Veragua, the northernmost province of New Granada, was within sight--often within stone's-throw--the whole of the way. There were the mountains of the promontory of Azuero, glowing through the blue haze all day long. There were the rocks of Los Frailes-- gray rocks belted with sparkling breakers, in and out, and wide over the spray of which thousands of sea-birds sported--flashing in the sunset. There were the stars when the sun was gone--the white beach gleaming beyond the line of purpled waters--and here and there the fire of some lone hut in the forest high above the coast. At all times the sea was smooth-- smooth as a lake in summer in the midst of warm wooded hills--and at noon it was wondrously beautiful and luminous; so luminous that, looking down into its depths, one might have been wooed to fancy it had a floor of diamonds, and that the pink and yellow seaflowers, loosened and floating upwards from it, bubbling as they rose, were made of the finest gold. As for the company on board, ever so many nationalities, professions, phases of life and destinies, were comprehended in it. St. George had his champion in Mr. Perry--an affable, intelligent, high-spirited young Englishman, who had just been gazetted to the British ViceConsulate at Realejo, Nicaragua, and was on his way to Guatemala to receive his...

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From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation’s demographics, culture, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns. America’s newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln’s rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln’s Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society. Harold Holzer, winner of the Lincoln Prize, charts Lincoln’s political career through the lens of immigration, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist political party to his evolution into an immigration champion, a progression that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition and Black citizenship. As Holzer writes, “The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln’s leadership; but it could not have been fought without the immigrant soldiers who served and, by the tens of thousands, died that the ‘nation might live.’” An utterly captivating and illuminating work, Brought Forth on This Continent assesses Lincoln's life and legacy in a wholly original way, unveiling remarkable similarities between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first.