A REVIEW OF THE POSITION OF PARTIES IN THE UNION,
AND A STATEMENT OF THE POLITICAL ISSUES:
DISTINGUISHING THEM ON THE EVE
OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAM.

PAIGN OF 1856.

Checked
May 1913

BY JAMES P. HAMBLETON, M. D.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856,

BY JAMES P. HAMBLETON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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