The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science . a hundred others. The Seat of Governn-ent of the United Joseph B. Varnum, Jr. New York:Press of Hunts Merchants Magazine. 1848. This is a full history of the City of Wash-ington, and view of its present condition. Itcontains a review of the discussions in Con-gress and elsewhere on its site, and plans andminute descriptions of its public works, &c.,including a particular notice of the SmithsonianInstitution, with a map. It is published in apamphlet form, and must necessarily, from theinterest of the subj
The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science . a hundred others. The Seat of Governn-ent of the United Joseph B. Varnum, Jr. New York:Press of Hunts Merchants Magazine. 1848. This is a full history of the City of Wash-ington, and view of its present condition. Itcontains a review of the discussions in Con-gress and elsewhere on its site, and plans andminute descriptions of its public works, &c.,including a particular notice of the SmithsonianInstitution, with a map. It is published in apamphlet form, and must necessarily, from theinterest of the subject and the industry and goodsense which is manifest in the work, commanda very extensive sale. ERRATA. In the article on the Adventures and Con-quests of the Normans in Italy, during the MiddleAges, in the June number, the following errorsoccurred in consequence of inability to send aproof to the author:— On p. 619, for Mens Fovis read Mons Jovis. On p. 622, et seq., for Malfi read Mclfi. On p. 627, for Palermo read Paterno. On pp. 629, 630, for Barajgoi read Bapay^o*.. ^ THE AMEPJCAI REVIEW: DEVOTED TO POLITICS AND LITERATURE. AUGUST, 1848. NO. II. THE OREGON BILL. REMARKS ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA DOCTRINE IN REGARD TO TERRITORY. It will be our endeavor in the following-pages, to consider the question that is nowinjuriously dividing the national opinion, iua mood more philosophical, and if possi-ble more conclusive, than that of sectionalor partisan feeling ; and, at the same time,to discuss some dangeious doctrines, thathave passed unnoticed, or at least imcon-futed, durinor its recent agitation in theSenate and in the House. In the Senate of the United State?, July18th, Mr. Clayton of Delaware, chairman ofthe select committee on the territories of Ore-gon, California, and New Mexico, reported abill for t!ie organization of territorial govern-ment in each of them.* It is proposed in this bill, to allow thewill of the citizens of Oregon, expressed inthe t
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