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

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

edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey

(John Harvard library)

Harvard University Press, 1999

  • v. 1 : alk. paper
  • v. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper
  • v. 2 : alk. paper
  • v. 2 : pbk. : alk. paper

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Contents: v. 1. 1828-1854 -- v. 2. 1854-1876

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 : alk. paper ISBN 9780674026421

Description

The 19th century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey attempts to capture 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 the party platforms of the late-1990s, these pamplets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large. Andrew Jackson's Democrats, Millard Filmore's Whigs, Abraham Lincoln's Republicans, and other, lesser-known parties are represented here. The pamphlets demonstrate for 50 years political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.
Volume

v. 2 : alk. paper ISBN 9780674026438

Description

The 19th century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey attempts to capture 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 the party platforms of the late-1990s, these pamplets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large. Andrew Jackson's Democrats, Millard Filmore's Whigs, Abraham Lincoln's Republicans, and other, lesser-known parties are represented here. The pamphlets demonstrate for 50 years political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.
Volume

v. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780674026452

Description

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. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constructing images of themselves and of their adversaries that resonate and echo the basic characteristics of America's then reigning sets of ideas. 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. Andrew Jackson's Democrats, Millard Fillmore's Whigs, Abraham Lincoln's Republicans, and other, lesser-known parties are represented here. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values. Broad in scope, widely circulated, catalysts for heated debate over the decades, these pamphlets are important documents in the history of American politics. In an excellent Introduction, Silbey teases out and elucidates the themes each party stressed and took as its own in its fight for the soul of the nation.

Table of Contents

  • Preface "Please Read and Circulate" "To Indulge in General Abusive Declamation" "Repellant and Mutually Abhorrent Parties" 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 The Evolution of Party Warfare, 1828-1838 Proceedings and Address of the New Hampshire Republican State Convention...Friendly to the Election of Andrew Jackson...(Concord, 1828) The Virginia Address (Richmond, 1828) Proceedings of the Antimasonic Republican Convention of theState of Maine (Hallowell, Me., 1834) To the Electors of Massachusetts (Worcester? 1837) The Jacksonian-Whig Synthesis, 1838-1854 To the Democratic Republican Party of Alabama (n.p., 1840) Address of the Liberty Party of Pennsylvania to the People of the State (Philadelphia, 1844) The Twenty-Ninth Congress, Its Men and Measures
  • Its Professions and Its Principles...(Washington, 1846) What's the Difference? Cass and Taylor on the Slavery Question (Boston, 1848) Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, July 9, 1852(Richmond, 1852)
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v. 2 : pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780674026469

Description

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. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constructing images of themselves and of their adversaries that resonate and echo the basic characteristics of America's then reigning sets of ideas. 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. Andrew Jackson's Democrats, Millard Fillmore's Whigs, Abraham Lincoln's Republicans, and other, lesser-known parties are represented here. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values. Broad in scope, widely circulated, catalysts for heated debate over the decades, these pamphlets are important documents in the history of American politics. In an excellent Introduction, Silbey teases out and elucidates the themes each party stressed and took as its own in its fight for the soul of the nation.

Table of Contents

VOLUME 2 New Issues and Parties: Americans, Republicans, andDivided Democrats, 1854-1860 A Few Considerations for Reflecting Voters (New York, 1855?) The Parties of the Day. Speech of William H. Seward at Auburn, October 21, 1856 (Washington, 1857) The Conspiracy to Break Up the Union. The Plot and Its Development...(Washington, 1860) Salient Points of the Campaign...(Springfield, 1860) The Culmination of the Battle for the Soul of America, 1861-1876 An Address...to the People of the States Which Adhere to the Federal Government (Washington, 1864) "Union" on Dis-Union Principles! The Chicago Platform, McClellan's Letter of Acceptance...A Speech Delivered byAbram Wakeman, of New York,...Nov. 3, 1864 (New York, 1864) Modern Philanthropy Illustrated. How They Tried to Make a White Man of a Negro...(n.p., 1868) 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)

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