













THE

AMERICAN REPUBLIC:

ITS

CONSTITUTION, TENDENCIES, AND DESTINY.


BY

O. A. BROWNSON, LL. D.





NEW YORK:

P. O'SHEA, 104 BLEECKER STREET.

1866.



Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1865, By P. O'SHEA,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for
the Southern District of New York.




  TO THE
  HON. GEORGE BANCROFT,
  THE ERUDITE, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND ELOQUENT
  Historian of the United States,

  THIS FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO SET FORTH THE PRINCIPLES OF
  GOVERNMENT, AND TO EXPLAIN AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF
  THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
  IN MEMORY OF OLD FRIENDSHIP, AND AS A
  SLIGHT HOMAGE TO GENI