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COTVA

THE WRITINGS

OF

JAMES MONROE

VOLUME VI.

1817-1823

OF THIS LETTER-PRESS EDITION

750 COPIES HAVE BEEN PRinted for SALE

No. 383

December, 1902

G. P.Putnam's Sons

OF

JAMES MONROE

INCLUDING A COLLECTION OF HIS PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE
NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PRINTED

EDITED BY

STANISLAUS MURRAY HAMILTON

"We owe it to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the
United States and those great European powers, to declare that we should con-
sider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this
hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety."-Monroe.