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American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine)

History

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

Name: American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.
Author: Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine)

Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine)

Political parties -- United States; United States -- Politics and government

Although the Congress of the United States had in 1790 and again in 1836
formally declared the policy of the government to be non-interference
with the States in respect to the matter of slavery within the limits of
the respective States, the subject continued to be agitated in
consequence of petitions to Congress to abolish slavery in the District
of Columbia, which was under the exclusive control of the federal
government; and of movements throughout the United States to limit, and
finally abolish it. The subject first made its appearance in national
politics in 1840, when a presidential ticket was nominated by a party
then formed favoring the abolition of slavery; it had a very slight
following which was increased tenfold at the election of 1844 when the
same party again put a ticket in the field with James G. Birney of
Michigan, as its candidate for the Presidency; who received 62,140
votes. The efforts of the leaders of that faction were continued, and
persisted in to such an extent, that when in 1848 it nominated a ticket
with Gerritt Smith for President, against the Democratic candidate,
Martin Van Buren, the former received 296,232 votes. In the presidential
contest of 1852 the abolition party again nominated a ticket, with John
P. Hale as its candidate for President, and polled 157,926 votes. This
large following was increased from time to time, until uniting with a
new party then formed, called the Republican party, which latter adopted
a platform endorsing the views and sentiments of the abolitionists, the
great and decisive battle for the principles involved, was fought in the
ensuing presidential contest of 1856; when the candidate of the
Republican party, John C. Fremont, supported by the entire abolition
party, polled 1,341,812 votes. The first national platform of the
Abolition party, upon which it went into the contest of 1840, favored
the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and Territories;
the inter-state slave trade, and a general opposition to slavery to the
full extent of constitutional power.

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History

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine)

Political parties -- United States; United States -- Politics and government

Although the Congress of the United States had in 1790 and again in 1836
formally declared the policy of the government to be non-interference
with the States in respect to the matter of slavery within the limits of
the respective States, the subject continued to be agitated in
consequence of petitions to Congress to abolish slavery in the District
of Columbia, which was under the exclusive control of the federal
government; and of movements throughout the United States to limit, and
finally abolish it. The subject first made its appearance in national
politics in 1840, when a presidential ticket was nominated by a party
then formed favoring the abolition of slavery; it had a very slight
following which was increased tenfold at the election of 1844 when the
same party again put a ticket in the field with James G. Birney of
Michigan, as its candidate for the Presidency; who received 62,140
votes. The efforts of the leaders of that faction were continued, and
persisted in to such an extent, that when in 1848 it nominated a ticket
with Gerritt Smith for President, against the Democratic candidate,
Martin Van Buren, the former received 296,232 votes. In the presidential
contest of 1852 the abolition party again nominated a ticket, with John
P. Hale as its candidate for President, and polled 157,926 votes. This
large following was increased from time to time, until uniting with a
new party then formed, called the Republican party, which latter adopted
a platform endorsing the views and sentiments of the abolitionists, the
great and decisive battle for the principles involved, was fought in the
ensuing presidential contest of 1856; when the candidate of the
Republican party, John C. Fremont, supported by the entire abolition
party, polled 1,341,812 votes. The first national platform of the
Abolition party, upon which it went into the contest of 1840, favored
the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and Territories;
the inter-state slave trade, and a general opposition to slavery to the
full extent of constitutional power.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

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