American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date

by Thomas V. Cooper

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Colonial Parties—Whig and Tory
3. The Particularists
4. Strong Government Whigs
5. The Federal and Anti-Federal Parties
6. The Republican and Federal Parties
7. Downfall of the Federal Party
8. Democrats and Federals
9. The Hartford Convention
10. Treaty of Ghent
11. The Protective Tariff
12. The Monroe Doctrine
13. The Missouri Compromise
14. American, Whig, Republican and Democratic Nominations of 1856
15. “Republican Association of Washington
16. The Kansas Struggle
17. The Lincoln and Douglas Debate
18. Lecompton Constitution
19. The Topeka Constitution
20. The Douglas Amendment
21. The Charleston Convention
22. The Chicago Republican Convention
23. The American Convention
24. Preparing for Secession
25. Proceedings of Virginia Convention
26. Inter-State Commissioners
27. Southern Congress
28. Proceedings of the Southern Congress
29. The Confederate States
30. The Crittenden Compromise
31. The Peace Convention
32. Transfer of U. S. Arms South In 1859–60
33. Mayor Wood’s Secession Message
34. Congress on the Eve of the Rebellion
35. Lincoln’s First Administration
36. The President’s Appeal to the Border States
37. Emancipation as a War Necessity
38. Proclamation of Sept. 22, 1862
39. Proclamation of January 1, 1863
40. Address of loyal Governors to the President
41. Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law
42. Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress
43. Third Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress
44. First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress
45. Seward as Secretary of State
46. Financial Legislation—Internal Taxes
47. First Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress
48. Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress
49. First Session Thirty-Eighth Congress
50. Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress
51. Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress
52. The Confederate Debt
53. Confederate Taxes
54. Admitting West Virginia
55. Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress
56. First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress
57. Third Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress
58. First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress
59. Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress
60. First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress
61. Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment
62. Admission of Representatives from Louisiana
63. Lincoln’s Proclamation on Reconstruction
64. Admission of Arkansas
65. Text of the Reconstruction Measures. 14th Constitutional Amendment
66. Reconstruction Act of Thirty-Ninth Congress
67. Supplemental Reconstruction Act of Fortieth Congress
68. Votes of State Legislatures on the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment
69. Gen. McClellan’s Letters
70. Lincoln’s Second Administration
71. Andrew Johnson
72. Johnson’s Policy
73. Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson
74. Grant
75. The Enforcement Acts
76. Readmission of Rebellious States
77. The Legal Tender Decision
78. The Greenback Party
79. The Prohibitory Party
80. Annexation of San Domingo
81. Amendatory Enforcement Acts
82. The Alabama Claims
83. The Force Bill
84. President Hayes’s Civil Service Order
85. Amnesty
86. The Liberal Republicans
87. Civil Service Reform
88. The Credit Mobilier
89. The “Salary Grab.”
90. Statement of Compensation and Mileage
91. Returning Boards
92. The Grangers
93. Illinois Railroad Act of 1873
94. Supplementary Civil Rights Bill
95. The Morton Amendment
96. The Whisky Ring
97. Impeachment of Belknap
98. The White League
99. Text of the Wheeler Compromise
100. Election of Hayes and Wheeler
101. The Electoral Count
102. Members of the Commission
103. The Title of President Hayes
104. The Cipher Despatches
105. Report of the Judiciary Committee
106. The Hayes Administration
107. The Negro Exodus
108. Closing Hours of the Hayes Administration
109. The Campaign of 1880
110. The Three Per Cent. Funding Bill
111. History of the National Loans
112. James A. Garfield
113. Republican Factions
114. The Caucus
115. Assassination of President Garfield
116. President Arthur
117. “Boss Rule.”
118. The Readjusters
119. Suppressing Mormonism
120. The South American Question
121. Minister Logan’s Reply
122. The Star Route Scandal
123. The Coming States
124. The Chinese Question
125. Abstracts from the Text of Senator Miller’s Speech
126. Reply of Senator Geo. P. Hoar
127. Our Merchant Marine
128. Current Politics
129. Political Changes in 1882
130. The Independent Republican Revolt In Pennsylvania
131. Political Changes—1883
132. Political Changes—1884
133. Candidates for the Nomination
134. The Democratic National Convention
135. The Contest over the Platform
136. The Ballots
137. The Campaign of 1884
138. Cleveland’s Administration
139. The Campaign of 1886
140. The Campaign of 1887
141. Opening of the Campaign of 1888
142. President Cleveland’s Message
143. Mr. Blaine’s Answer to Cleveland
144. The Democratic Convention
145. The Republican Convention
146. The Presidential Election of 1888
147. Analysis of the Popular Vote
148. President Harrison’s Message on the Chilean Troubles
149. The National Conventions of 1892
150. Virginia Resolutions of 1798
151. Answers of the several State Legislatures
152. Resolutions of 1798 and 1799
153. Washington’s Farewell Address to the People of the United States, Sept. 17, 1796
154. Republican Platform, Philadelphia
155. 1830.—Anti-masonic resolution,
156. 1832.—National Democratic Platform, adopted at a ratification Meeting,
157. 1839.—Abolition Resolution,
158. 1872.—Labor Reform Platform
159. Virginia Republican
160. Comparison of Platform Planks on Great Political Questions
161. The Rebellion
162. Home Rule
163. Internal Improvements
164. The National Debt and Interest, the Public Credit, Repudiation, etc.
165. Resumption
166. Capital and Labor
167. Tariff
168. Education
169. Duty to Union Soldiers and Sailors
170. Naturalization and Allegiance
171. The Chinese
172. Civil Service
173. The Tariff Issue of 1884
174. The Tariff and Revenue, 1888
175. Civil Service Reform, 1888
176. Pensions, Etc., 1888
177. Pauper Labor
178. Foreign Policy, 1888
179. The Farmers’ Alliance
180. 1892.—Republican National Platform
181. 1892.—Democratic National Platform
182. The Tariff Issue, 1892
183. The Reciprocity Issue, 1892
184. The Silver Issue, 1892
185. The Ballot Issue, 1892
186. Civil Service, 1892
187. The Third or People’s Party
188. The Ballot
189. People’s Party Platform
190. Speech of James Wilson,
191. Speech of Patrick Henry,
192. Supposed Speech of John Adams in favor of the Declaration of Independence
193. Speech of Patrick Henry,
194. Speech of John Randolph
195. Edward Everett
196. Close of the Speech of Daniel Webster
197. John Randolph on the other side of Same Question
198. Extract from Mr. Hayne’s Speech against the Tariff Bill, in Congress,
199. Mr. Clay’s Speech on his Public Lands Bill
200. Speech of John C. Calhoun,
201. Speech of Hon. Robt. Y. Hayne
202. Webster’s Great Reply to Hayne,
203. John C. Calhoun on the Rights of the States
204. Speech of Henry Clay
205. Mr. Buchanan’s Speech on the Independent Treasury,
206. Lewis Cass on the Missouri Compromise
207. Clement L. Vallandigham on Slavery
208. Speech of Horace Greeley on the Grounds of Protection
209. Henry A. Wise
210. Kenneth Raynor, of North Carolina, on Fusion of Fremont and Fillmore Forces
211. Religious Test
212. Speech of Henry W. Davis, of Maryland,
213. Joshua R. Giddings Against the Fugitive Slave Law
214. Robert Toombs on Slavery,
215. Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisiana,
216. William Lloyd Garrison Upon the Slavery Question
217. Theodore Parker Against the Fugitive Slave Law
218. William H. Seward’s Speech on the Higher Law
219. Charles Sumner on the Fallibility of Judicial Tribunals
220. Galusha A. Grow’s Speech on the Homestead Bill
221. Lincoln and Douglas
222. Mr. Lincoln’s Reply
223. Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, Senator from Mississippi,
224. Speech of the Hon. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts
225. Speech of Senator Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana,
226. Speech of Hon. J. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky,
227. Henry Carey’s Speech on the Rates of Interest
228. Speech of Gen. Simon Cameron
229. Speech of Hon. John A. Logan,
230. Speech of Hon. James G. Blaine, of Maine,
231. Speech of Roscoe Conkling
232. Lincoln’s Speech at Gettysburg
233. Speech of Hon. John M. Broomall, of Pennsylvania,
234. Speech, of Hon. Charles A. Eldridge, of Wisconsin
235. Hon. A. K. McClure on What of the Republic?
236. Robert G. Ingersoll, of Illinois,
237. Roscoe Conkling, of New York,
238. James A. Garfield, of Ohio,
239. Daniel Dougherty, of Pennsylvania,
240. George Gray, of Delaware,
241. Frye Nominating Blaine
242. Senator Hill’s Denunciation of Senator Mahone
243. Senator Mahone’s Reply to Senator Hill
244. Speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont,
245. Speech of Hon. J. D. Cameron, of Penna
246. Extracts from Speech of Hon. Thomas H. Benton,
247. Mr. Blaine’s Oration
248. Improvement of the Subordinate Civil Service
249. Relations Between the Senate and Executive Department
250. The Great Tariff Campaign of 1888
251. The Tariff Speech of Samuel J. Randall
252. Tariff Speech of Major Wm. McKinley, Jr.,
253. Speech of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew
254. Speech of Hon. Leon Abbett
255. Declaration of Independence
256. Articles of Confederation
257. Ordinance of 1787
258. Constitution of the United States of America,
259. Articles in Addition to, and Amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America,
260. Ratifications of the Constitution
261. Ratifications of the Amendments to the Constitution
262. Importance of Rules
263. Estimate of Values of Foreign Coins
264. Interest Laws of All the States and Territories in the United States
265. Aggregate Issues of Paper Money in War Times
266. Electoral Votes for Presidents and Vice-Presidents
267. States and Territorial Governments
268. The Customs Tariff of Great Britain
269. Presidents and Vice-Presidents
270. Summary of Popular and Electoral Votes in Presidential Elections, 1789–1888
271. Cabinet Officers of the Administrations
272. Signers of the Declaration of Independence. In Congress Assembled July 4th, 1776
273. Ante-War Debts of the Several States
274. Candidates for President and Vice President,
275. Number of Electoral Votes to Which Each State Has Been Entitled, at Each Election, 1789–1880
276. Supreme Court of the United States
277. Total Number of Troops Called Into Service During the Rebellion
278. Length of Sessions of Congress, 1789–1891
279. Civil Officers of the United States
280. The States and Territories—when Admitted or Organized—with Area and Population
281. Speakers of the House of Representatives
282. Table, exhibiting, by States, the Aggregate Troops called for by the President, and furnished to the Union Army, from April 15th, 1861, to close of War of Rebellion
283. Statement Showing the Expenditures,
284. National Debts, Expenditure and Commerce, Per Capita
285. Statement
286. Chronological Politics
287. Book I. History of Political Parties
288. Book II. Political Platforms
289. Book III. Great Speeches on Great Issues
290. Book IV. Parliamentary Practice, Constitution, Declaration and Articles of Confederation
291. Index to the Constitution of the United States
292. Book V. Tabulated History of Politics

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