THE

CONSTITUTIONAL

AND

POLITICAL HISTORY

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

BY

DR. H. VON HOLST,

PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

BY JOHN J. LALOR, A. M.

1828-1846.

JACKSON'S ADMINISTRATION — ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.

CHICAGO:

CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY,

1879.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine

BY CALLAGHAN & CO.,

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

DAVID ATWOOD, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, MADISON, WIS.