JAMES MONROE IN HIS RELATIONS TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE 1776 TO 1826 BY DANIEL C. GILMAN PRESIDENT OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1899 Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company. PROF. W. H. HOBBS 815146 PREFACE. IN the preparation of this volume free use was made of Monroe manuscripts which had not been published. To those which are in the Department of State I have had access by permission of the Secretary, Hon. James G. Blaine, and transcripts of some of them were made for me, with his sanction, by the direction of Mr. Theodore F. Dwight, Librarian of the Department. I am under still greater obligations to Mrs. S. L. Gouverneur, Jr., of Washington, who has in her possession an invaluable collection of letters addressed to Monroe, the grandfather of her husband, from Madison, Calhoun, Rush, Wirt, Lafayette, and many other distinguished men, together with original drafts of letters written to them and to others by Monroe. I am far from having exhausted these rich mines. Both collections are imperfectly arranged, and without a much greater expenditure of time than could be given on the spot their contents could not be mas 08-9-46 NER, |