Florida man pulls up to the service station⦠âHacksâ gas pump... And then THIS happens: [logo]( Editorâs note
At The Classy Investors, we are serious about being your âeyes and earsâ for special opportunities for you to take advantage of. The message below from one of our partners is one we think you should take a close look at. On New Yearâs Day, 1825, at the last of his annual White House receptions, President James Monroe made a pleasing impression upon a Virginia lady who shook his hand: âHe is tall and well formed. His dress plain and in the old styleâ¦. His manner was quiet and dignified. From the frank, honest expression of his eye ⦠I think he well deserves the encomium passed upon him by the great Jefferson, who said, âMonroe was so honest that if you turned his soul inside out there would not be a spot on it.â â Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1758, Monroe attended the College of William and Mary, fought with distinction in the Continental Army, and practiced law in Fredericksburg, Virginia. As a youthful politician, he joined the anti-Federalists in the Virginia Convention which ratified the Constitution, and in 1790, an advocate of Jeffersonian policies, was elected United States Senator. As Minister to France in 1794-1796, he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with Robert R. Livingston, he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase. His ambition and energy, together with the backing of President Madison, made him the Republican choice for the Presidency in 1816. With little Federalist opposition, he easily won re-election in 1820. Florida man pulls up to the service station⦠Monroe made unusually strong Cabinet choices, naming a Southerner, John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of War, and a northerner, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State. Only Henry Clayâs refusal kept Monroe from adding an outstanding Westerner. Early in his administration, Monroe undertook a goodwill tour. At Boston, his visit was hailed as the beginning of an âEra of Good Feelings.â Unfortunately these âgood feelingsâ did not endure, although Monroe, his popularity undiminished, followed nationalist policies. The Democrats defeated him for Governor of Indiana in 1876 by unfairly stigmatizing him as âKid Glovesâ Harrison. In the 1880âs he served in the United States Senate, where he championed Indians. homesteaders, and Civil War veterans. In the Presidential election, Harrison received 100,000 fewer popular votes than Cleveland, but carried the Electoral College 233 to 168. Although Harrison had made no political bargains, his supporters had given innumerable pledges upon his behalf. When Boss Matt Quay of Pennsylvania heard that Harrison ascribed his narrow victory to Providence, Quay exclaimed that Harrison would never know âhow close a number of men were compelled to approach⦠the penitentiary to make him President.â âHacksâ gas pump... And then THIS happens: [Gas pump]( [Click here to watch!]( Across the facade of nationalism, ugly sectional cracks appeared. A painful economic depression undoubtedly increased the dismay of the people of the Missouri Territory in 1819 when their application for admission to the Union as a slave state failed. An amended bill for gradually eliminating slavery in Missouri precipitated two years of bitter debate in Congress. The Missouri Compromise bill resolved the struggle, pairing Missouri as a slave state with Maine, a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Missouri forever. Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 word arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Directory had refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a substantial bribe. Adams reported the insult to Congress, and the Senate printed the correspondence, in which the Frenchmen were referred to only as âX, Y, and Z.â The Nation broke out into what Jefferson called âthe X. Y. Z. fever,â increased in intensity by Adamsâs exhortations. The populace cheered itself hoarse wherever the President appeared. Never had the Federalists been so popular. Congress appropriated money to complete three new frigates and to build additional ships, and authorized the raising of a provisional army. It also passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, intended to frighten foreign agents out of the country and to stifle the attacks of Republican editors. In foreign affairs Monroe proclaimed the fundamental policy that bears his name, responding to the threat that the more conservative governments in Europe might try to aid Spain in winning back her former Latin American colonies. Monroe did not begin formally to recognize the young sister republics until 1822, after ascertaining that Congress would vote appropriations for diplomatic missions. He and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams wished to avoid trouble with Spain until it had ceded the Floridas, as was done in 1821. Great Britain, with its powerful navy, also opposed reconquest of Latin America and suggested that the United States join in proclaiming âhands off.â Ex-Presidents Jefferson and Madison counseled Monroe to accept the offer, but Secretary Adams advised, âIt would be more candid ⦠to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France, than to come in as a cock-boat in the wake of the British man-of-war.â Monroe accepted Adamsâs advice. Not only must Latin America be left alone, he warned, but also Russia must not encroach southward on the Pacific coast. â. . . the American continents,â he stated, âby the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European Power.â Some 20 years after Monroe died in 1831, this became known as the Monroe Doctrine. [logo](
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