The Eve of Conflict: Stephen A. Douglas and the Needless WarOctagon Books, 1963 - Всего страниц: 608 I. Portrait of a senator -- II. The prairie politician -- III. California -- IV. The titans' last stand -- V. The triumph of the Little Giant -- VI. The first defeat -- VII. The race for the Pacific -- VIII. The coming of the storm -- IX. Riding the tempest -- X. In the light of history -- XI. A realist in an emotional age -- XII. The Black Republicans -- XIII. Bleeding Kansas -- XIV. The pendulum swings back -- XV. The second effort -- XVI. Nearing the crisis -- XVII. Douglas and Buchanan -- XVIII. 'Old Obliquity' -- XIX. Buchaneers and Black Republicans -- XX. The Little Giant takes charge -- XXI. The great debates -- XXII. The aftermath of victory -- XXIII. The struggle with the Ultras -- XXIV. The Northwest asserts itself -- XXV. On to Charleston -- XXVI. The death of a party -- XXVII. The conservatives awake -- XXVIII. The second bolt -- XXIX. The campaign of 1860 -- XXX. The cotton states secede -- XXXI. Lincoln rejects compromise -- XXXII. Holding Lincoln's hat -- XXXIII. Death of a hero -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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... railroad , both because the consequent increase in the intercourse between the sections of the State would lessen sectional division , and because such a railroad , linked at the Ohio with another to the Gulf , would be an immense ...
... railroad , both because the consequent increase in the intercourse between the sections of the State would lessen sectional division , and because such a railroad , linked at the Ohio with another to the Gulf , would be an immense ...
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... railroad magnates to have the Alabama and Mississippi Legislatures impose such instructions on their Senators . In November , 1849 , he quietly visited Mobile , Alabama , headquarters of the Mobile Railroad Company , an ambitious but ...
... railroad magnates to have the Alabama and Mississippi Legislatures impose such instructions on their Senators . In November , 1849 , he quietly visited Mobile , Alabama , headquarters of the Mobile Railroad Company , an ambitious but ...
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... railroad question would be a ' disturbing element ' ; it would never do to put the Federal Government into the railroad - building business ; ' We can grant alternate sections of land , as we did for the Central road but not a dollar ...
... railroad question would be a ' disturbing element ' ; it would never do to put the Federal Government into the railroad - building business ; ' We can grant alternate sections of land , as we did for the Central road but not a dollar ...
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PORTRAIT of a Senator | 1 |
THE PRAIRIE POLITICIAN | 15 |
lature and General Jackson Getting ahead in Prairie Politics The youngest | 33 |
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