t: -7/3 - Wiy DOCUMENT No. I 15. EXPANSION TlAS BEEN FROM THE EARLIEST DAY THE POLICY OF OUR COUNTRY. THE EVIDENCE FROM THE FATHERS OF THE REPUBLIC. the testimony of George Washington Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson General Grant Benjamin Franklin John Marshall Alexander Hamilton Henry Clay William H. Seward Albert Gallatin Stephen A. Douglas James Madison Gouverneur Morris James K. Polk James Buchanan Franklin Pierce BY ALBERT H. WALKER, OF THE N W YORK BAR. PUBLISHED BY republican national committee, *