Excerpt from The Missouri Compromises and Presidential Politics, 1820-1825: From the Letters of William Plumer, Junior, Representative From New HampshireSome of Plumer's letters which were not pertinent to the topics under discussion have been omitted, as have parts of particular letters otherwise reproduced. The original text has been followed as closely as possible, even to spelling and punctuation. Only those portions of the letters which deal with public affairs have been included. The number and length of footnotes is always a vexatious problem. The policy attempted here has been to supply enough notes to clarify the text without annotating it almost to death, to borrow a phrase from Dr. J. Frank lin Jameson.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.