The American Party Battle : : Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1: 1828–1854 / / Joel H Silbey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Silbey, Joel H,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The John Harvard Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)

The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- part one The Evolution of Party Warfare, 1828–1838 -- I. 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 two 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)