Category: History - American
The crux of American politics is the quadrennial election of President. In the ebb and flow of our political activity the flood-tide comes in the Presidential contests. There are often tumultuous struggles and decisive events in the intervals, but their political effect and al...
The crux of American politics is the quadrennial election of President. In the ebb and flow of our political activity the flood-tide comes in the Presidential contests. There ar...
2. Part 2Washington again received the unanimous vote in the electoral colleges—132 in number—and Adams became Vice-President by receiving 77 votes for President. When the two Houses met...
3. Part 3It is impossible to give anything like an intelligent presentation of the popular vote between Jefferson and Adams. In most of the States which chose electors by popular vote th...
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5. Part 5Monroe’s administrations were uneventful beyond the assertion of what has ever since been known as the Monroe Doctrine, that was evolved by Monroe and John Quincy Adams, his Sec...
6. Part 6The civil service system of the Government under those administrations was an ideal system, but the Jackson leaders openly inspired the followers of their favorite to earnest po...
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8. Part 8The Whig National Convention was called to meet at Harrisburg on the 4th of December, 1839, just one year before the Presidential election, and no national convention in the his...
9. Part 9President Tyler’s political antecedents offer some excuse for his failure to approve the national bank. He opposed Jackson, as did many other able men in the South, because Jack...
10. Part 10_Resolved_, That it was understood in the times of the Declaration and the Constitution that the existence of slavery in some of the States was in derogation of the principles o...
11. Part 11The certainty that the administration would acquire a large portion of Mexican territory for the purpose of creating new Slave States gave dignity and importance to the slavery...
12. Part 12The Southern Whig leaders saw that the only possible way to save the Whigs in the South was to nominate a Southern man; General Taylor was the only Southern man whom they believ...
13. Part 13When Van Buren was nominated, Wilmot openly declared himself as a Free-Soil Democrat, but he received the regular Democratic nomination for Congress in his district. The Cass pr...
14. Part 14_Third._ That while struggling freedom everywhere enlists the warmest sympathy of the Whig party, we still adhere to the doctrines of the Father of his Country, as announced in...
15. Part 15It was at this convention that Stephen A. Douglas first developed as an aggressive candidate for President, and as he had led the battle for the repeal of the Missouri Compromis...
16. Part 16_Resolved_, That while the Constitution of the United States was ordained and established by the people in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic...
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18. Part 18The friends of Lincoln had been tireless in their efforts, and they displayed wonderful ability in handling their forces. The leaders in immediate charge of the Lincoln people w...
19. Part 198. That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; that as our republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national te...
20. Part 20_Therefore be it Resolved_, That the Democratic party do hereby pledge themselves to use every means in their power to secure the passage of some bill, to the extent of the cons...
21. Part 21Dinner was hastily served, when the servants were cleared from the dining-hall, and Governor Curtin stated the facts to the dining guests, and insisted that Lincoln’s programme...
22. Part 22_Resolved_, That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, du...
23. Part 23I first saw Mrs. Lincoln at Harrisburg on the night that Lincoln made his midnight journey to Washington, and the greatest difficulty we had on that occasion was to prevent her...
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25. Part 25═══════════════╤═══════════════════╦═════════════════ │ POPULAR VOTE. ║ ELECTORAL VOTE. STATES. ├─────────┬─────────╫────────┬──────── │ Grant. │ Seymour.║ Grant. │Seymour. ────...
26. Part 26Although Judge Davis had responded by telegraph to the notification of his nomination from the convention, expressing his gratitude for the honor conferred, he did not definitel...
27. Part 276. We are opposed to further grants of the public lands to corporations and monopolies, and demand that the national domain be set apart for free homes for the people.
28. Part 28I never saw a happier face than that of Greeley when I met him, as he was then entirely confident of success, and in a very kind and facetious way he reminded me that I had unde...
29. Part 2917. The national administration merits commendation for its honorable work in the management of domestic and foreign affairs, and President Grant deserves the continued hearty g...
30. Part 3012. The abolition of executive and legislative patronage, and the election of President, Vice-President, United States Senators, and of all civil officers, so far as practicable...
31. Part 31The Senate was carefully canvassed, and enough Republican votes were marshalled to throw the vote of the Senate in favor of Tilden on the Louisiana issue if Conkling would lead...
32. Part 32The equal, steady, and complete enforcement of laws and the protection of all our citizens in the enjoyment of all privileges and immunities guaranteed by the Constitution, are...
33. Part 33Garfield possessed more political honors at one time than any other public man in the history of the country. After the November election of 1880, he was the Congressman from hi...
34. Part 34Randall had been named as the candidate for President by Pennsylvania, and had a delegation strongly committed to his support. I was present at the conferences of Randall’s frie...
35. Part 35The National party, that was the legatee of the Greenback party, held its national convention at Indianapolis, on the 28th of May, with James B. Weaver, of Iowa, its president....
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37. Part 37The Republican party controlling the Senate and resisting in both houses of Congress a reformation of unjust and unequal tax laws which have outlasted the necessities of war and...
38. Part 38The first concern of all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people, and the purity of their homes. The Republican party cordially sympathizes with all wise and we...
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40. Part 40We demand that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot in all public elections, and that such ballot shall be counted and re...
41. Part 41SEC. 17. Popular education being the only safe basis of popular suffrage, we recommend to the several States most liberal appropriations for the public schools. Free common scho...
42. Part 42The Socialists’ Labor Convention met at New York on the 28th of August, and nominated Simon Wing, of Massachusetts, for President and Charles H. Machett, of New York, for Vice-P...
43. Part 43The Republican National Convention met at St. Louis on the 16th of June. There was little or no dispute as to who would be nominated for President, as a decided majority of the...
44. Part 44Recognizing that the money question is paramount to all others at this time, we invite attention to the fact that the Federal Constitution names silver and gold together as the...
45. Part 45We hold that the power to control and regulate a paper currency is inseparable from the power to coin money, and hence that all currency intended to circulate as money should be...
46. Part 46We therefore call upon the wage-workers of the United States, and upon all other honest citizens, to organize under the banner of the Socialist Labor party into a class-consciou...
47. Part 47═════════╤═════════════════════════════════╤═══════════╤══════════╤═════════╤═══════════════════════════════════╤═════════ Year of │Candidates for President, State, │ Popular │P...
48. Part 48Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, and Cleveland were twice elected President. Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland were each defeated for the Preside...
49. Part 49Cleveland, Grover, his first election to the Presidency, 288–315; the spirited and earnest character of the campaign, 288; his nomination, 294; his popular and electoral vote, 3...
50. Part 50Pinckney, Charles C., his vote for the Presidency in the third Electoral College, 10, 11; in the fourth, 15, 16; his first defeat for the Presidency, 23, 24; his second defeat f...