Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . revious autumn, Mr. Monroehimself had been chosen President with but littleopposition, and upon March 4, 1817, he was in-augurated. Four years later he was elected fora second term. Among the important measures of his Presi-dency were the cession of Florida to the UnitedStates, the Missouri Compromise, and the famous Monroe doctrine. This doctrine was enun-ciated by him
Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . revious autumn, Mr. Monroehimself had been chosen President with but littleopposition, and upon March 4, 1817, he was in-augurated. Four years later he was elected fora second term. Among the important measures of his Presi-dency were the cession of Florida to the UnitedStates, the Missouri Compromise, and the famous Monroe doctrine. This doctrine was enun-ciated by him in 1823, and was as follows: Thatwe should consider any attempt on the part ofEuropean powers to extend their system to anyportion of this hemisphere as dangerous to ourpeace and safety, and that we could not viewany interposition for the purpose of oppressing orcontrolling American governments or provincesin any other light than as a manifestation byEuropean powers of an unfriendly dispositiontoward the United States. At the end of his second term, Mr. Monroe re-tired to his home in Virginia, where he lived un-til 1830, when he went to New York to live withhis son-in-law. In that city he died, on the 4thof July, S. S, A^lamx^ JOHN OUINCY ADAMS. (|OHN QUINCY ADAMS, the sixth PresidentI i)f the United States, was born in the ruralv2/ liome of his honored father, John Adams, inQuincy, Mass., on tlie nth of July, 1767. Hisniotlier, a woman of exalted worth, watched overhis childhood during the constant ab-sence of his father. When but eight years ofage, he stoo<l witli liis mother on an eminence,listening to the booming of the great battle onBunkers Hill, and gazing out upon the smokeand flames billowing up from the conflagration ofCharlestown. When but eleven years old he took a tearfuladieu of his mother, to .sail with his father for Eu-rope, through a fleet of Urilish bright, animated boy spent a year and a-halfin Paris, where his father
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