Life of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States

Excerpt from Life of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United StatesNested among the foothills of the western side of the Great Smoky Mountains, which mark the boundary-line between Tennessee and North Carolina, lies the town of Greeneville, memorable by its association with many men whose names have become landmarks in American history.From this vicinity went some of those liberty-loving heroes who, under the leadership of James Robertson and John Sevier, won the battle at King's Mountain, and turned the tide of the American Revolution, which gave independence to tho struggling Colonies.Here, too, for a time lived Benjamin Lundy, whom Horace Greeley in his "Great American Conflict" declares to have been "the pioneer of direct and distinctive anti-slavery movements in America. Many who lived before him and contemporary with him were Abolitionists. But he was the first of our countrymen who devoted his life and all his powers exclusively to the cause of the slave."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.