A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . nparty nominated James Monroe, witli Daniel D. Tompkinsfor Vice-President. The Federalists nominated Rufus Kingfor President, but made no nomination for party was virtually dead. Monroe received an over-whelming majority. From that time forward the Federalparty ceased to exist. PART VII. THIRTY YEARS OF PEACE AND PROGRESS, 1. nnonroes Bt>ministration. A One-Party Era.—Monroes two administrations werethe only ones in tlie history of the country in which party spirit did not prevail. The decHne of
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . nparty nominated James Monroe, witli Daniel D. Tompkinsfor Vice-President. The Federalists nominated Rufus Kingfor President, but made no nomination for party was virtually dead. Monroe received an over-whelming majority. From that time forward the Federalparty ceased to exist. PART VII. THIRTY YEARS OF PEACE AND PROGRESS, 1. nnonroes Bt>ministration. A One-Party Era.—Monroes two administrations werethe only ones in tlie history of the country in which party spirit did not prevail. The decHne of theFederal party had left the Democratic-Republican party supreme. In his firstelection he received one hundred and1 eighty-seven out of two hundred andI twenty-one electoral votes. In his sec-ond election, in 1820, no other candidatewas nominated. His election would havebeen unanimous had not one electorvoted against him, on the ground that hewas not willing that any President butWashington should have a unanimous vote. The Presidents Journey.—Like Washington, Monroe. James Monkoe. James Monroe, like all the Presidents before him except Adams,was a native of Virginia. He was born there in 1758, entered the Rev-olutionary army at the age of eighteen, and served with distinction inthe battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He after-ward studied law, and served at various periods as minister to France,Spain, and England. As a special envoy to France in 1803 he securedthe purchase of Louisiana. He was not possessed of brilliant powers,but was a plain, honest man, whose leading aim was the good of hiscountry. He was the third President to die on July 4 (1831).286 MONROES ADMINISTRATION. 287 made a journey through some of the States in the first yearof his term. It was a period of slow travel, and it took himthree months to traverse the Middle and Eastern hoped by this journey to heal party feeling. New Eng-land had opposed the war, and had suffered from it.
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