LEADER 04706nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910818119703321 005 20230422045932.0 010 $a0-674-04364-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674043640 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786967 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050895 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11109197 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10048715 035 $a(PQKB)10255317 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300481 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300481 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318475 035 $a(OCoLC)923111959 035 $a(DE-B1597)574475 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674043640 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786967 100 $a19981110d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe American party battle$b[electronic resource] $eelection campaign pamphlets, 1828-1876$hVolume 1$i1828-1854 /$fedited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (320p.) 225 1 $aThe John Harvard library 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-02642-X 311 $a0-674-02645-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreface "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) 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 $a9910818119703321 996 $aThe American party battle$94036970 997 $aUNINA