Excerpt from Conservative Views: The Government of the United States: What Is It? Comprising a Correspondence With Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, Eliciting Views Touching the Nature and Character Ok the Government of the United States, The Impolicy of Secession, The Evils of Disunion, And TIn presenting the following pages to the public, my object is to induce a more thorough common sense understanding of the government of the United States, that we may appreciate its value, and if possible restore and perpetuate its existence.The work contains reasons which influenced Constitutional Union men in opposing secession, and in withholding their assent after their State had seceded, also, reasons why higher law experiments should be forever abandoned, and the government restored as it was.It attempts to lift the dark veil of prejudice and partisan hate, which for years past has shut out from view the light of reason, especially in reference to our political affairs.It will present (briefly) an unbiased and unprejudiced view of political evils, as developed during the past eighty years, and point out the remedy. It is one of a series of pamphlets on political topics, which will appear in due time, provided the author perceives any good results from the present issue.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.