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 Monroe, although of the democratick party, is a man extremely moderate, sagacious and enlightened: he has endeavoured to unite the two parties, and has succeeded to a certain degree; but they are now beginning to form two other parties, denominated of the North and South; and as the latter will have the preponderance in Congress within a few years, a division of the Union into two or more republicks will be the inevitable result. It is probable, that in the next election Monroe will be confirmed in the Presidency for another four years.

The United States had scarcely seen their independence acknowledged, tranquillity and good order established in their Republick, and the place settled which they were to hold among independent powers, when they formed the ostentatious project of driving from the continent of America the nations that held possessions on it, and of uniting under their dominion, by federation or conquest, the whole of the colonies. As a preparation to realize this gigantick plan, the United States began by procuring a geographical and statistical survey of the whole continent, and islands which they coveted. They sent emissaries every where, and even