By Joel H. Silbey
The 19th century used to be the heyday of livid competition among American political events, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of these battles in a consultant sampling of occasion pamphlets. Political events mapped the panorama of electoral and ideological war, developing pictures of themselves and in their adversaries that resonate and echo the fundamental features of America's then reigning units of principles. the character of political controversy, in addition to the substance of politics, is embedded in those social gathering records which either united and divided americans. in contrast to trendy get together systems, those pamphlets explicated actual matters and gave perception into the society at huge. Andrew Jackson's Democrats, Millard Fillmore's Whigs, Abraham Lincoln's Republicans, and different, lesser-known events are represented the following. The pamphlets display how, for this fifty-year interval, political events have been surrogates for American calls for and values. large in scope, extensively circulated, catalysts for heated debate over the many years, those pamphlets are very important files within the heritage of yank politics.
In a good creation, Silbey teases out and elucidates the topics every one occasion under pressure and took as its personal in its struggle for the soul of the nation.
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8, 23; “Papers for the People,” p. 158. 24 introduction Democrats accused them of advocating. ” Some Whigs believed that the “despotism” of the Catholic Church was on the march, sending hundreds of thousands of its believers to the United States where they would help destroy the country. Of course, the Democrats were to blame because they accepted that outrage to the republic. ” In fact, “every catholic on the continent . . ”51 Such arguments were not unusual; they reºected what appears to be a genuine partisan divergence of view about the matter of societal inclusion.
3, 5, 16; Robert Rantoul, “An Oration Delivered before the Democratic Citizens of the County of Worcester . . , 1837), p. 71. ” Only the Democrats could lead the forces of right because they clearly saw the bank as extravagant, overly powerful, corrupt and corrupting in its activities, dangerous to the nation, and unnecessary for its prosperity. ” Something had to be done. ”36 Instead of a national bank, Democrats ultimately came together to promote an independent treasury to hold the federal government’s receipts—an institution created during the Van Buren administration in the late 1830s and subsequently anchored by the Polk administration in 1846.
Proceedings . . of the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, 1838” p. 6; Samuel Young, “Oration Delivered at the Democratic Republican Celebration . . July Fourth, 1840” (New York, 1840), p. 21. 35. “Address of the Republican Members of Congress from the State of New York to Their Constituents” (Albany, 1834), pp. 3, 5, 16; Robert Rantoul, “An Oration Delivered before the Democratic Citizens of the County of Worcester . . , 1837), p. 71. ” Only the Democrats could lead the forces of right because they clearly saw the bank as extravagant, overly powerful, corrupt and corrupting in its activities, dangerous to the nation, and unnecessary for its prosperity.
