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STATES.

PRESIDENT

VICE-PRESIDENT.

James Monroe.

J. E. Howard.

James Ross.

John Marshall.

Connecticut Delaware

Georgia ...

4.

Indiana. .

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts. ..

New Hampshire. ii

New Jersey ...

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina..

Tennessee.

Vermont. ..

Virginia

Total ..

The election of Monroe was nearly unanimous, and foreshadowed the coming unanimity, when the policy of Jefferson, continued by his successors, and now freed from foreign compulsion, should exert its benign influence under its normal condition peace.

The Republican party was, once more, national. Every State but three said, &quot;Well done, good and faithful servant.&quot; The battle for the protection of American commerce had been fought and won. The Federal party had played its last card and could no longer obstruct. No serious opposition was to be apprehended in resuming the policy of territorial expansion. President Monroe could now pursue the measures for the acquisition of Florida, the only part of the foreign policy originated by Jefferson which had not yet been carried into successful execution.