OR,

A HISTORY

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IN

THE ADMINISTRATIONS,

FROM THE MONARCHIO COLONIAL DAYS
TO THE PRESENT TIMES.

BY

JOHN ROBERT IRELAN, M. D.

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

Volume XIV.

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1888.

Checked
May 1913

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1888.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

OF THE

LIFE, ADMINISTRATION,

AND TIMES

OF

FRANKLIN PIERCE,

Fourteenth President of the United States.

End of the Long Period of Compromises,

AND DEVELOPMENT OF

The Final Conflict of Freedom and Slavery.

BY

JOHN ROBERT IRELAN, M. D.

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