LEADER 04104nam 2200505Ia 450 001 9910815627103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-04363-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674043633 035 $a(CKB)2560000000006945 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050894 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300498 035 $a(DE-B1597)574384 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674043633 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000006945 100 $a19981110d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe American party battle$b[electronic resource] $eelection campaign pamphlets, 1828-1876$h1854-1876 /$fedited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (320p.) 225 1 $aThe John Harvard library 311 $a0-674-02646-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aVOLUME 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) 330 $aThe 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. 330 $bThe nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constructing images of themselves and of their adversaries that resonate and echo the basic characteristics of America's then reigning sets of ideas. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large. Andrew Jackson's Democrats, Millard Fillmore's Whigs, Abraham Lincoln's Republicans, and other, lesser-known parties are represented here. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values. Broad in scope, widely circulated, catalysts for heated debate over the decades, these pamphlets are important documents in the history of American politics. In an excellent introduction, Silbey teases out and elucidates the themes each party stressed and took as its own in its fight for the soul of the nation. 410 0$aJohn Harvard library. 606 $aPolitical parties$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCampaign literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y19th century 615 0$aPolitical parties$xHistory 615 0$aCampaign literature$xHistory 676 $a324.97305 701 $aSilbey$b Joel H$0473564 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815627103321 996 $aThe American party battle$94036970 997 $aUNINA