James Monroe: Second Inaugural Address - Milestone Documents

James Monroe: Second Inaugural Address

( 1821 ) Commentary by Kirk H. Beetz, UC Davis, Emeritus, and Michael J. O'Neal, Ph.D.

Glossary

Chief Magistrate of our Union the president
husbandry farming
presage an omen, or foretelling
Sabine a river in Texas and Louisiana that, along a portion of its length, forms the boundary between what would become the two states
St. Croix a city in the Virgin Islands

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