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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... Whig lamented that ' Coons ' the frontier name for Whig -'are scarce indeed in the Sucker State , the boys went it strong for Polk , Dallas , Douglas and Texas . ' ― Freed from danger at home he responded to a call from Polk's own State ...
... Whig lamented that ' Coons ' the frontier name for Whig -'are scarce indeed in the Sucker State , the boys went it strong for Polk , Dallas , Douglas and Texas . ' ― Freed from danger at home he responded to a call from Polk's own State ...
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... Whig weakness were soon realized . This ✓ time Clay was not a candidate ; as the Whig delegates gathered in Baltimore in mid - June , he lay at the National Hotel in Washington , near death from debility , and passed away soon after ...
... Whig weakness were soon realized . This ✓ time Clay was not a candidate ; as the Whig delegates gathered in Baltimore in mid - June , he lay at the National Hotel in Washington , near death from debility , and passed away soon after ...
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... Whig and Democratic , had divided the Nation . Whig principles were not confined by sectional lines but were applied and proclaimed South as well as North , just as were Democratic principles . But then came the Abolitionists ...
... Whig and Democratic , had divided the Nation . Whig principles were not confined by sectional lines but were applied and proclaimed South as well as North , just as were Democratic principles . But then came the Abolitionists ...
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PORTRAIT Of a Senator I | 1 |
THE PRAIRIE POLITICIAN | 15 |
CALIFORNIA | 36 |
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