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The rise and fall of the American Whig Party : Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War
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- ISBN: 0195055446
- ISBN: 9780195055443
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xviii, 1248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 1181-1201) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "Not fitted to make converts" -- "To rescue the government and public liberty" -- "No opposition man can be elected President" -- "We have many recruits in our ranks from the pressure of the times" -- "Harrison and prosperity or Van Buren and ruin" -- "The Whig Party seems now totally broken up and dismembered" -- "The Whigs are in high spirits" -- "The present administration are your best recruiting officers" -- "The contest for President should be regarded as a contest of principles" -- "We must have the aid of gunpowder" -- "Stimulate every Whig to turn out" -- "Many discordant political interests to reconcile" -- "Patronage is a dangerous element of power" -- "The slavery excitement seems likely to obliterate party lines" -- "The long agony is over" -- "God save us from Whig vice presidents" -- "Fillmore is precisely the man for the occasion" -- "Webster is now engaged in strenuous efforts to secure the succession" -- "Scott & Scott alone is the man for the emergency" -- "Like pissing against the wind" -- "This Nebraska business will entirely denationalize the Whig Party" -- "The Whig Party, as a party, are entirely disbanded" -- "Confusion worse confounded" -- "Let then, the Whig Party pass" -- "The Whig Party is dead and buried." |
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