Republican National Convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896: With a History of the Republican Party and a Survey of National Politics Since the Party's Foundation, Etc., EtcI. Haas Pub. and Engraving Company, 1896 - 224 pages |
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... Kentucky and Tennessee - out of the thirty- one . The Whig wreck became complete when , in 1854 , the Kansas- Nebraska act made slavery extension the Democratic programme , and the Whigs became the larger element of the new party 2 ...
... Kentucky and Tennessee - out of the thirty- one . The Whig wreck became complete when , in 1854 , the Kansas- Nebraska act made slavery extension the Democratic programme , and the Whigs became the larger element of the new party 2 ...
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... Kentucky Whig , gave notice that when the bill creating the Territory of Nebraska came up he should offer a resolution repealing the Missouri compromise in that Territory , so as to allow slaves to be held in it . Stephen A. Douglas ...
... Kentucky Whig , gave notice that when the bill creating the Territory of Nebraska came up he should offer a resolution repealing the Missouri compromise in that Territory , so as to allow slaves to be held in it . Stephen A. Douglas ...
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... Kentucky and Tennessee , which went to Bell . The popular vote of the combined opposition was 944,149 greater , and its electoral vote was 57 less than those of the Republican party . Then came the oft - threatened secession . South ...
... Kentucky and Tennessee , which went to Bell . The popular vote of the combined opposition was 944,149 greater , and its electoral vote was 57 less than those of the Republican party . Then came the oft - threatened secession . South ...
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... Kentucky and Missouri- did not secede , though all of them , except Delaware , contributed many soldiers to the Confederate armies as well as to the forces of the Union . This history , however , will not concern itself with military ...
... Kentucky and Missouri- did not secede , though all of them , except Delaware , contributed many soldiers to the Confederate armies as well as to the forces of the Union . This history , however , will not concern itself with military ...
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... Kentucky , recently Vice - President , who a few weeks later joined the Confederacy , thus ending what appeared to be the most promising political career opening to any Democratic statesman of that day , and Jesse D. Bright of Indiana ...
... Kentucky , recently Vice - President , who a few weeks later joined the Confederacy , thus ending what appeared to be the most promising political career opening to any Democratic statesman of that day , and Jesse D. Bright of Indiana ...
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Page 15 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 15 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 160 - The wretch, condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Page 79 - But this momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.
Page 3 - States, except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which, being inconsistent with the principle of nonintervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void...
Page 66 - We reaffirm the American doctrine of protection. We call attention to its growth abroad. We maintain that the prosperous condition of our country is largely due to the wise revenue legislation of the Republican Congress. We believe that all articles which cannot be produced in the United States, except luxuries, should be admitted free of duty, and that on all imports coming into competition with the products of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages abroad...
Page 58 - We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection. We protest against its destruction, as proposed by the President and his party. They serve the interests of Europe ; we will support the interests of America.
Page 66 - The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money, with such restrictions and under such provisions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt- paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal.
Page 42 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added...
Page 15 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.