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

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 embed...

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