Excerpt from With the Fathers: Studies in the History of the United States A Century of Constitutional Interpretation were contributed to the Century Magazine; Washington's Inauguration to} Harper's Magazine; The Third Term Tradition, The Riotous Career of the Know N othings, A Century's Struggle for Silver, and Is Sound Finance Possible under Popular Govern ment 2 to the Forum. My thanks are due, there fore, to Messrs. Harper Brothers, and to the editors of the Atlantic Monthly, the Century Magazine, and the Forum for their permission to reprint these essays. The gist of The Monroe Doctrine was contrib uted to the New York Times. How the British left New York was first published in the New York Press. To both of these journals an acknowledgment of my indebtedness is made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.