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THE

HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA

GUY CARLETON LEE, PH. D.

OP

JOHNS HOPKINS AND COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITIES, EDITOR

AUTHOR'S EDITION

LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND Numbered AND REGISTERED

SETS, OF WHICH THIS IS

NO.

From miniature by Sene, in possession of Mrs.
Charles Wilmer, of Baltimore.

James Monroe.

From miniature by Sene, in possession of Mrs. Samuel L. Gouverneur, of Washington.

NORTH AMERICA

VOLUME XII

THE GROWTH OF THE NATION
1809 TO 1837

From the beginning of Madison's administration to that of Van Buren

BY

RICHARD TAYLOR STEVENSON, PH. D.

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Author of: Is Rationalism Rational? Twice on Mars Hill; Types
and Hopes of American Democracy; The Permanent and Pro-
gressive in Homiletics; An Eighteenth Century Club; A Hundred
Years of Methodism in Ohio, etc., etc.

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