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Democratic Monthly Review"

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The political character of this Review viii
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OF its main objects is to eIucidate the true
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examine. in spirit of fairness and candor.
al the leading measures of the present adj
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The present condition Of the nations Of
Europe, and the attitude in which some of
them stand towards certain nortions of this
continent. have invested our foreign relations
with the utmost importance Never was this
Government placed in n situation of moro
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of affairs in Mexico and the West Indies
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