A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . he Country—Introduction of the RailwayLocomotive—Trouble with the Cherokees in Georgia—Death of Adams and Jeflferson—CongressionalAction on tlie Tariff—Presidential P]lection of I82S. JAMES James Moxroe, the fifth Presi-dent of tlie United States, was bomat Monroes Creek, WestmorelandCounty, Virginia, April 28, 1758,and died July 4, 1831. It will benoticed that four out of the first fivePresidents were
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . he Country—Introduction of the RailwayLocomotive—Trouble with the Cherokees in Georgia—Death of Adams and Jeflferson—CongressionalAction on tlie Tariff—Presidential P]lection of I82S. JAMES James Moxroe, the fifth Presi-dent of tlie United States, was bomat Monroes Creek, WestmorelandCounty, Virginia, April 28, 1758,and died July 4, 1831. It will benoticed that four out of the first fivePresidents were natives of Virginia,and in course of time three othersfollowed. It will be admitted, there-fore, that the (State has well earnedthe title of the Mother of Presi-dents. Monroe received his educationat William ami Mary College, andwas a soldier uiuler was not nineteen years old when,as lieutenant at the battle of Tren-ton, he led a squad of men who cap-tured a Hessian battery as it wasabout to open fire. He studied lawunder Jeflferson, was elected to theViiginia House of Burgesses, and,when twenty-five years old, was a delegate to the Continental Congress. He (205). JAMES MONROE.(1758-1831.) Two terms, 1817-1825. 206 ADMINISTRATIONS OF MONROE AND ADAMS. was minister plenipotentiary to France in 1794, but his course displeased theadministration and he was recalled. From 1799 to 1802 he was governor ofVirginia, and, in the latter year, was sent to France by President Jefiersonto negotiate the purchase of Louisiana. In 1811 he was again governorof Virginia, and shortly afterward appointed secretary of State by also served as secretary of war at the same time, and, as the treasury wasempty, pledged his private means for the defense of New Orleans. Monroewas of plain, simple manners, of excellent judgment and of the highest his career did not stamp him as a man of genius, yet it proved him to bethat which in his situation is better—
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