Excerpt from Roger Brooke Taney: The Annual Address Delivered Before the American Bar Association, at Its Fourth Annual Meeting, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., August 18th, 1881 The energy of George Rogers Clarke had indeed secured for these states the territory between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi. But Robert R. Livingston had not yet acquired for as the country beyond the Mississippi; nor had he and Fulton then perfected the application of steam to navigation. 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.