The American party battle : election campaign pamphlets, 1828-1876 /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors / Creators:Silbey, Joel H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Series:John Harvard library.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1.
  • Preface
  • "Please Read and Circulate"
  • "To Indulge in General Abusive Declamation"
  • A Note on the Texts
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Defining the Soul of the Nation
  • The Great Themes: Continuity and Change
  • "To Save and Exalt the Union"
  • "Consider Well ... the Platforms ... of the Parties Now Asking Your Suffrage"
  • Volume 1.
  • Part 1. The Evolution of Party Warfare, 1828-1838
  • 1. Proceedings and Address of the New Hampshire Republican State Convention ... Friendly to the Election of Andrew Jackson ... (Concord, 1828)
  • 2. The Virginia Address (Richmond, 1828)
  • 3. Proceedings of the Antimasonic Republican Convention of the State of Maine (Hallowell, Me., 1834)
  • 4. To the Electors of Massachusetts (Worcester? 1837)
  • Part 2. The Jacksonian-Whig Synthesis, 1838-1854
  • 5. To the Democratic Republican Party of Alabama (n.p., 1840)
  • 6. Address of the Liberty Party of Pennsylvania to the People of the State (Philadelphia, 1844)
  • 7. The Twenty-Ninth Congress, Its Men and Measures; Its Professions and Its Principles ... (Washington, 1846)
  • 8. What's the Difference? Cass and Taylor on the Slavery Question (Boston, 1848)
  • 9. Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, July 9, 1852 (Richmond, 1852)
  • Volume 2.
  • Part 3. New Issues and Parties: Americans, Republicans, and Divided Democrats, 1854--1860
  • 10. A Few Considerations for Reflecting Voters (New York, 1855?)
  • 11. The Parties of the Day. Speech of William H. Seward at Auburn, October 21, 1856 (Washington, 1857)
  • 12. The Conspiracy to Break Up the Union. The Plot and Its Development ... (Washington, 1860)
  • 13. Salient Points of the Campaign ... (Springfield, 1860)
  • Part 4. The Culmination of the Battle for the Soul of America, 1861-1876
  • 14. An Address ... to the People of the States Which Adhere to the Federal Government (Washington, 1864)
  • 15. "Union" on Dis-Union Principles! The Chicago Platform, McClellan's Letter of Acceptance ... A Speech Delivered by Abram Wakeman, of New York, ... Nov. 3, 1864 (New York, 1864)
  • 16. Modern Philanthropy Illustrated. How They Tried to Make a White Man of a Negro ... (n.p., 1868)
  • 17. The Three Secession Movements in the United States. Samuel J. Tilden, ... the Adviser, Aider, and Abettor of the Great Secession Movement of 1860 ... (Boston, 1876)