OR,

A HISTORY

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IN

THE ADMINISTRATIONS,

FROM THE MONARCHIC COLONIAL DAYS
TO THE PRESENT TIMES.

BY

JOHN ROBERT IRELAN, M. D.

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

Volume VIII.

CHICAGO:

FAIRBANKS AND PALMER PUBLISHING CO.

BOSTON MARTIN GARRISON & CO. NEW YORK: JOHN CUMMINGS.
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ST. LOUIS: E. HOLDOWAY. MINNEAPOLIS: BUCKEYE PUBLISHING Co.
SAN FRANCISCO: J. DEWING & Co.
1887.

Checked
May 1913

COPYRIGHTED

BY L. T. PALMER,

1887.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

OF THE

LIFE, ADMINISTRATION,

AND TIMES

OF

MARTIN VAN BUREN,

Eighth President of the United States.

Seven Years' Seminole War,

AND

Period of Great Financial Convulsions.

BY

JOHN ROBERT IRELAN, M. D.

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