The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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Page 199
... Whigs distrusted the city mob , frontiersmen , and the right of the ignorant and illiterate to vote . ( Jackson angrily defined a Whig as a completely untrustworthy man devoid of principle and honesty . ) But the Whigs also attracted ...
... Whigs distrusted the city mob , frontiersmen , and the right of the ignorant and illiterate to vote . ( Jackson angrily defined a Whig as a completely untrustworthy man devoid of principle and honesty . ) But the Whigs also attracted ...
Page 277
... Whigs being content to let the old issues die without anticipating the new . " A slaugh- ter house of Whig principles , " Horace Greeley an- nounced bitterly , while Webster felt that Taylor's nom- ination was " not fit to be made ...
... Whigs being content to let the old issues die without anticipating the new . " A slaugh- ter house of Whig principles , " Horace Greeley an- nounced bitterly , while Webster felt that Taylor's nom- ination was " not fit to be made ...
Page 345
... Whigs . The Free - Soilers - among them Chase , Sumner , and Horace Mann - spurned Scott to nominate Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire on a platform proclaiming , " Slavery is a sin against God , and a crime against man . " At the ...
... Whigs . The Free - Soilers - among them Chase , Sumner , and Horace Mann - spurned Scott to nominate Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire on a platform proclaiming , " Slavery is a sin against God , and a crime against man . " At the ...
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