Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . s time, too, we got Flor-i-da from the Kingof Spain, and gave up Tex-as, af-ter pay-ing a big sum ofmon-ey to the A-mer-i-cans, who had been robbed bySpain. Mis-sou-ri came in-to the Un-ion while Mon-roe wasPres-i-dent, and there was a fierce storm of words; theNorth said she should not hold slaves after she was a State,the South said that she should. At last Con-gress gave way to the South-ern States;but made a law that there should be a line drawn throughthe land, north of which no State should hold slaves. In 1825 Mon-ro
Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . s time, too, we got Flor-i-da from the Kingof Spain, and gave up Tex-as, af-ter pay-ing a big sum ofmon-ey to the A-mer-i-cans, who had been robbed bySpain. Mis-sou-ri came in-to the Un-ion while Mon-roe wasPres-i-dent, and there was a fierce storm of words; theNorth said she should not hold slaves after she was a State,the South said that she should. At last Con-gress gave way to the South-ern States;but made a law that there should be a line drawn throughthe land, north of which no State should hold slaves. In 1825 Mon-roe was free to go to his home at Oak Hill,Yir-gin-i-a, and here he lived un-til 1830. His wife died in 33 LIVES OP THE PEESIDENTS. that year, and then he went to live with his daugh-ter inNew York. He died here on the 4th of Ju-ly, 1831, and hisname is one that the whole land loves and hon-ors. He was bur-ied in New York, but on the one hun-dredthan-ni-ver-sa-ry of his birth, his bod-y was tak-en to Eich-mond, Vir-gin-i-a, and a hand-some stone raised o-ver JAMES MONROE.
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