The world: historical and actual . >^~§3*Efc§-Oi. HE war of 1812 went out insuch a perfect and unex-pected blaze of glory thatwhen the excitement hadpassed by, the Federal partywas missed. It has neverbeen found since. Mr. Mon-roe, an amiable gentlemanof fair ability, a nrotege of Jeffer-son, was elected to the presidencytwo terms in succession. Ho wasindeed a Republican, but his elec-tions were not party -victories. Nei-ther were they the result of a com-promise. The two parties had cometo a final struggle over war with^7^V!S/ England, and the one which hadU £ suffered defeat had the grace
The world: historical and actual . >^~§3*Efc§-Oi. HE war of 1812 went out insuch a perfect and unex-pected blaze of glory thatwhen the excitement hadpassed by, the Federal partywas missed. It has neverbeen found since. Mr. Mon-roe, an amiable gentlemanof fair ability, a nrotege of Jeffer-son, was elected to the presidencytwo terms in succession. Ho wasindeed a Republican, but his elec-tions were not party -victories. Nei-ther were they the result of a com-promise. The two parties had cometo a final struggle over war with^7^V!S/ England, and the one which hadU £ suffered defeat had the grace and good sense to step down and out, not with anyblare of horns or waving of banners, but so veryquietly that no man knoweth of [its] grave to thisday. It simply faded out. The compromise did. indeed, begin during theMonroe administration, but it related to the futurerather than the past, the future being that greatquestion of slavery, hitherto in no sense a political issue. The Northwest Ordinance, a very importantanti-slavery measure, was neith
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