TABLE OF CONTENTS
[Preface] v I Jefferson’s Administration, 1801-1809 [The Election and Inauguration] 1 [Margaret Bayard Smith Describes the Election and Inauguration] 2 [Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address] 4 [Burr Kills Hamilton] 7 [David Hosack Describes Hamilton’s Last Hours] 7 [Marbury vs. Madison] 10 [Excerpts from John Marshall’s Decision] 10 [The Louisiana Purchase] 12 [Jefferson Writes to Robert Livingston] 13 [The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Lewis’ Journal] 14 [The Embargo Act] 18 [Washington Irving Satirizes the Embargo Act] 19 II Madison’s Administration, 1809-1817 [Madison’s Inauguration] 22 [Mrs. Smith’s Report] 22 [The War of 1812] 24 [The Constitution Defeats the Guerrière: Isaac Hull] 25 [Commodore Perry Wins a Victory on Lake Erie: Oliver Perry] 27 [The British Burn Washington: Dolly Madison] 28 [The British Burn Washington: George Gleig] 30 [The Battle of New Orleans: George Gleig] 32 [The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson] 35 III James Monroe’s Administration, 1817-1825 [Early Days in the Mississippi Valley] 37 [A Husking Bee in Ohio: William Cooper Howells] 38 [Religion in Tennessee: Lorenzo Dow] 40 [Davy Crockett Runs for Office] 44 [Early Days in Illinois: Morris Birkbeck] 47 [Ominous Loomings: The Missouri Compromise, 1820] 50 [Representative Arthur Livermore Argues Against Extending Slavery] 50 [Senator James Barbour Defends Slavery] 52 [Representative James Stevens Argues for the Compromise] 53 [The Monroe Doctrine] 54 [Excerpts from the Monroe Doctrine] 54 IV John Quincy Adams [Lighthouses in the Sky] 56 [Excerpts from Adams’ First Message to Congress] 56
The selections by Margaret Bayard Smith, from Forty Years of Washington Society, edited by Gaillard Hunt, which begin on pages [2] and [22], were reprinted through the courtesy of Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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