tinct, liberal, and dispensable system of domestic and foreign policy, and raised it into ascendency in the government; the progress of Republican principles under the successive administrations of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams; the several and consecutive platforms of the Whig and Democratic parties, from 1833 to 1856; the conduct of the slave power, as the same was represented in congress in relation to Missouri, the Indian lands in Georgia, and the Central and South American republics; its coöp. eration with the friends of General Jackson to overbear Mr. Adams and defeat his reëlection; its warlike defiance of, and triumph over, the general government, with the assent of the Whig party, during the administration of General Jackson; its usurpations under the administrations of Mr. Van Buren and General Harrison, and its great exaltation during that of Tyler; its uninterrupted sway under Mr. Polk's administration, in pursuance of a previously formed coalition with Mr. Calhoun; its temporary repulse under President Taylor, and its restored vigor and audacity under Mr. Fillmore; and its full, final, and bloody culmination under the administration of Franklin Pierce. It is believed that the work will be found to be essentially faithful in respect to the subjects of which it treats. If it shall be found to add anything to the common stock of political information, or contribute toward the advancement of the Republican cause, the aim and purpose of the author will have been answered.