The American Party Battle : Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Defining the Soul of the Nation -- Part one: The Evolution of Party Warfare, 1828-1838 -- 1. Proceedings and Address of the New Hampshire Republican State Convention of Delegates Friendly to the Election of Andrew Jackson to the Next Presidency of the United States, Assembled at Concord, June 11 and 12, 1828 (Concord, 1828) -- 2. The Virginia Address (Richmond, 1828) -- 3. Proceedings of the Antimasonic Republican Convention of the State of Maine (Hallowell, Me., 1834) -- 4. To the Electors of Massachusetts (Worcester? 1837) -- Part two: The Jacksonian-Whig Synthesis, 1838-1854 -- 5. To the Democratic Republican Party of Alabama (n.p., 1840) -- 6. Address of the Liberty Party of Pennsylvania to the People of the State (Philadelphia, 1844) -- 7. The Twenty-Ninth Congress, Its Men and Measures -- Its Professions and Its Principles. What It Has Done for Itself, What for the Country, and What Against the Country. Being a Review of the Proceedings of the First Session of the Twenty-Ninth Congress (Washington, 1846) -- 8. What's the Difference? Cass and Taylor on the Slavery Question (Boston, 1848) -- 9. Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, July 9, 1852 (Richmond, 1852).

The 19th century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans.

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