ITS EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, POLITICAL, FINANCIAL, JUDICIAL AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY: EMBRACING SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF ITS CHIEF MAGISTRATES, ITS EMINENT STATESMEN, FINANCIERS, SOLDIERS AND JURISTS, WITH MONOGRAPHS ON SUBJECTS OF PECULIAR HISTORICAL INTEREST. BY BENSON J. LOSSING, LL.D., J. K. UPTON, HON. A. G. RIDDLE, HON. THOMAS M. COOLEY, HON. J. V. CAMPBELL, COL. CHARLES WHITTLESEY, C. F. ROBERTSON, D. D., AND MANY OTHER DISTINGUISHED WRITERS. EDITED BY J. H. KENNEDY.

CLEVELAND:

THE N. G. HAMILTON PUBLISHING COMPANY.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME III.

AMERICAN POLITICS AND POLITICAL PARTIES.

The Tory and the Whig Anterior to the Revolution-American Whigs-Strong

Government Whigs-Federals and Anti-Federals-Broad and Close Construc-

tionists-Democratic-Republicans-The First Presidential Election-The Alien

and Sedition Laws.........

The Retirement of the Federal Party-The Louisiana Question-Troubles with

England and France-The Rise of the Democratic Party-Declaration of War

with England-The First National Convention-The Famous Hartford Con-

vention-The Era of Good Feeling.......

Andrew Jackson on Political Reform-Missouri and the Growth of the Slave

Power-The Tariff One of the Great Questions-The End of Congressional

Nominations-The Alleged Clay-Adams Conspiracy-The Anti-Masonic Party-

The United States Bank Controversy-The Whig Party.........

The Loco-Focos-The Sub-Treasury System-Democratic Declarations Concerning

Slavery-The Abolition Party-The Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign-

Tylerism-The Bank Question Once More...........

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Texas and the Mexican War - The Calhoun Doctrine The Barnburners and

Hunkers-The Liberty Party-The Wilmot Proviso-Varieties of Whigs-The

Fugitive Slave Law-The Compromises-Repeal of the Missouri Compromise... 43

The Kansas-Nebraska Question-Squatter Sovereignty-Border Ruffians The

Advent of the Republican Party-The Dred Scott Decision-Slavery the Great

Question-The American Party- Know-Nothings-The Democratic Split of

1860-The Constitutional Union Party.........

The Great Contest of 1860-Lincoln's Election-Secession and the Fall of Sumter-

The Union Party-The Prosecution of the War and Victory-Reconstruction—

The Liberal-Republican Movement — The National Prohibition Party- The

Year of the Tidal Wave-The Ohio Idea.........

Resumption-The Greenback Party-The Electoral Commission of 1877-The Con-

ciliation Policy of President Hayes-The Chinese Question-The Greenback-

Labor Party-The Death of Garfield-An Anti-Monopoly Convention-The

First Democratic President Elected Since the War..........

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