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

by Thomas V. Cooper; Hector T. Fenton

INDEX.

BOOK I.
HISTORY OF POLITICAL PARTIES.

• Abolition of Indian factory system, [25]
• Abolition Party, rise and progress of, [53]
• Act to elect President and Vice-President by a direct vote of the people, [27]
• Act to prohibit African slave trade, [17]
• Act to provide for collection, disbursement and safe-keeping of public money, [37]
• Acquisition of Florida, [25]
• Adams, John, inaugurated, [10]
• Adams, John Quincy, elected, [26]
• Adams, John Quincy, policy, [27]
• Admission of Florida and Iowa, [47]
• Admission of Mississippi and Illinois, [23]
• Admission of Missouri, to the Union, with an attempt to restrict slavery in its limit, [24]
• Alabama claims, [197]
• Alien law and (sedition), [11]
• Amendment to Constitution (Sept. 25th, 1804), [12]
• Amendment of Morton, [222]
• Amendment 13th, passed, [167]
• Amendment 14th, votes on, [147]
• Amendment, 15th, to enforce same, [197]
• American party, [57]
• American ritual, [57]
• American Convention, [87]
• American nomination of 1856, [69]
• American system for protection of home industry, [25]
• American system lost, [32]
• Amnesty, [199]
• Anti-Federal Party, [6]
• Annexation of Texas, [46]
• Approval of act declaring war, June 18, 1812, [19]
• Apportionment bill, first, [8]
• Arkansas admitted, [170]
• Arthur, [261]
• Arms, transferred South, 1859, ’60, [109]
• Armed neutrality, first, [10]
• Attempt to amend bill for admission of California by extension of Missouri Compromise to the Pacific, [52]
• Attempt to pass Tenure of Office bill, [28]
• Bank of the United States, expiration of charter, [30]
• Bank and State, separation of, [37]
• Belknap, impeachment of, [223]
• Benton’s speech, [34]
• Bill for appropriating one year’s Salary to the widow of Gen. Harrison, [39]
• Bill to distribute public land money among the States, [35]
• Bill for distribution of public land revenue, [39]
• Bill for establishment of system of bankruptcy, [39]
• Bill for equalizing value of gold and silver, [34]
• Bill of Rights, [8]
• Border States, appeal of President to, [137]
• “Boss Rule”, [261]
• Broad Constructionists, [7]
• Buchanan’s nomination, [69]
• Buchanan’s views, [99]
• Calhoun on causes of difference between himself and the President, [32]
• Calhoun, death of, [52]
• Calhoun, extends constitution to the territories, [50]
• Campaign of 1880, [242]
• Caucus, [256]
• Charleston Convention, [81]
• Chesapeake, search of the, [17]
• Chinese question, [281]
• Chinese question—Senator Miller’s speech, [281]
• Chinese question—Senator Hoar’s reply, [285]
• Circuit Courts, law for establishment of repealed, [15]
• Civil Rights Bill, supplementary, [221]
• Civil Service Order of President Hayes, [198]
• Civil Service Question, first, [12]
• Clay’s compromise bill, [33]
• Clay’s compromise resolutions, [51]
• Clay’s compromise bill rejected, [52]
• Clay, resignation of, [44]
• Clay, Speaker of the House, [18]
• Clintonian Platform, [19]
• Close Constructionists, [7]
• Colonial Parties, [3]
• Color in War Politics, [159]
• Columbia river, settlement of territory, of, [25]
• Confederate Constitution, [97]
• Confederate Debt, [152]
• Confederate States, [98]
• Confederate Taxes, [153]
• Continental Congress, first and second, [4]
• Congress, origin of, [4]
• Congress, first under Federal constitution, [7]
• Congress, 26th, [37]
• Congress, 37th, 2d session, [145]
• Congress, 37th, 3d session, [147]
• Congress, 38th, 1st session, [147]
• Constitution ratified, [6]
• Constitution, revision of articles of confederation, [6]
• Credit Mobilier, [200]
• Crittenden Compromise, [104]
• Cumberland road act, [25]
• Declaration of Independence, [4]
• Democratic Party, [17]
• Democratic nomination, 1856, [17]
• Despatches, Cipher, [234]
• Disunion Conventions, [53]
• Disbandment of provisional army, [15]
• Douglas’ amendment, [80]
• Electoral Commission, members of, [232]
• Electoral Count (Hayes and Wheeler), [229]
• Emancipation a war necessity, [141]
• Embargo Act, [16]
• Enforcement Acts, [193]
• Enforcement Acts, amendatory, [197]
• England, rejection of treaty with, [17]
• Era of Good Feeling, [21]
• Factions, Republican, [253]
• Federal Party, [17]
• Federal Party, downfall of, [12]
• Fillmore, Millard, succession of, [52]
• Financial crisis, [36]
• Financial distress, [24]
• Financial Legislation, internal taxes, [149]
• Force Bill, [197]
• Free-Soilers, [50]
• French agitation by Republicans, [9]
• Fugitive Slave Law, first, [11]
• Fugitive Slave Law, repeal of, [145]
• Funding Bill, [3] per cent., [244]
• Garfield, [253]
• ———— —assassinated, [260]
• Ghent, treaty of, [20]
• Governors, loyal, address to President, [144]
• Grangers, [218]
• Grant, [191]
• Greenback Party, [194]
• Hardships endured by the New England States in war of 1812, [20]
• Harrison, nomination of, [38]
• ———— inauguration of, [39]
• Hartford Convention, [20]
• Hartford Convention, delegates, [20]
• Hayes, administration of, [237]
• Hayes, closing hours of his administration, [240]
• Hayes and Wheeler, election of, [228]
• Hayes’ title to the Presidency, [233]
• Hour Rule in the House, [39]
• Impeachment trial, first, [16]
• Independent treasury act repealed, [39]
• Interior Department, creation of, [50]
• Jackson, Andrew, death of, [36]
• ———— election of, [28]
• Jay’s treaty with England, [9]
• Jay’s instructions demanded, [10]
• Jefferson, election of, [12]
• Jefferson, inauguration of, [12]
• Johnson, Andrew, [178]
• ———— impeachment of, [179]
• ———— policy of, [178]
• Kansas admitted, [56]
• Kansas-Nebraska Bill, [55]
• Kansas struggle, [71]
• Know-Nothing Party, [55]
• Land distribution, [45]
• League, White, [223]
• Lecompton constitution, [79]
• Legal Tender Decision, [194]
• Liberal Republicans, [199]
• Lincoln, 1st administration of, [120]
• ———— 2d „ „, [177]
• Lincoln and Douglas debate, [73]
• Log-Rolling, first exhibition of, [8]
• Louisiana, purchase of, [15]
• ———— fears of the people for the result, [15]
• ———— price paid, [16]
• Louisiana’s Representatives admitted, [168]
• Madison, James, election of, [18]
• Marine, Merchant, [296]
• McClellan’s political letters, [175]
• Mexico, treaty with, [49]
• Mileage, [214]
• Missouri Compromise, [24]
• Monroe, inauguration of, [21]
• Monroe Doctrine, [23]
• Monroe’s re-election, [24]
• Mormonism, suppression of, [264]
• National Bank scheme, old issue against revived, [18]
• ———— ———— ———— passage of bill to establish, [21]
• National Bank of the United States, Bill, [41]
• ———— ———— ———— ———— bill for renewal of charter vetoed, [31]
• ———— ———— ———— ———— conduct of the, [31]
• ———— ———— ———— ———— downfall of, [32]
• ———— ———— ———— ———— Second Bill, [43]
• ———— ———— ———— ———— vetoed, [42]
• ———— ———— ———— ———— war of the, [31]
• National Loans, history of, [245]
• National Republicans, convention of, [31]
• Native American Party, [54]
• Naturalization law, [11]
• ———— uniform system of, [15]
• Naval Department proposition to abolish defeated, [15]
• Navy, [45]
• Negro Exodus, [240]
• Neutrality, armed, the first, [10]
• Neutrality, proclamation of, [9]
• New Jersey elections contested, [37]
• Non-intercourse act, revival of, [18]
• Nullification, origin of doctrine of, [28]
• ———— doctrine of discussed, [29]
• Ordinance of State of South Carolina, [32]
• Oregon treaty, [47]
• Pairing off, [37]
• Particularists, [5]
• Peace Convention, [106]
• Peace Parties, [19]
• Pensions, naval, [40]
• Pierce, Franklin, election of, [54]
• Politics, current, [298]
• Polk, James K., nomination of, [45]
• Pre-emption system, [37]
• Prohibitory Party, [196]
• Protective tariff, [21]
• Protective Tariff discussions, [28]
• Proclamation, Lincoln, [169]
• ———— Emancipation, Sept. 22, 1862, [141]
• ———— ———— January 1, 1863, [143]
• Readjusters, [263]
• Rebellion, Congress on the eve of, [113]
• Recall of American Minister and declaration of war of 1812, [18]
• Reconstruction, [169]
• ———— act 39th Congress, [171]
• ———— act supplemental 40th Congress, [172]
• ———— measures, text of, [171]
• Reform in Civil Service, [200]
• Republican Association of Washington, [70]
• ———— Convention, Chicago, [86]
• ———— and Federal Parties, [8]
• ———— Party, [69]
• ———— Liberal, [199]
• Returning Boards, [217]
• Salary Grab, [214]
• San Domingo, annexation of, [196]
• Scott, Dred, suit, [56]
• Secession Message, Mayor Wood’s, [112]
• ———— Preparing for, [87]
• Sedition law, [11]
• Seizure of American vessels, [9]
• Seward as Secretary of State, [149]
• Seward’s proposal, [51]
• Sinking Fund for redemption of public debt, [15]
• Slave Trade, first law in relation to passed, [15]
• Slavery question, inception of, [35]
• Slavery in the territories, [49]
• South American States, question of recognizing the independence of, [23]
• Southern Congress, proceedings of, [97]
• South American question, [269]
• Star Route scandal, [277]
• Strong Government Whigs, [5]
• States, the coming, [278]
• ———— rebellious, readmission of, [193]
• Tariff, [44]
• Taxes, Confederate, [153]
• Taxes, Internal, [151]
• Taylor, Zach., nomination of, [50]
• Topeka Constitution, [79]
• Tory Party, [3]
• Treasury, deficit, [45]
• Twenty-first rule, [53]
• Tyler, John, succession of, [39]
• Van Buren, election of, [36]
• ———— resignation from Cabinet, [32]
• Virginia’s political power, jealousy of, [18]
• Virginia Convention, proceedings of, [91]
• Washington, Farewell Address, [10]
• ———— re-election of, [9]
• War of 1812, primary cause of, [17]
• West Virginia admitted, [158]
• Whig Party, [3]
• ———— appears for the last time, [54]
• Whiskey Rebellion, [8]
• Whiskey Ring, [222]
• Wilmot Proviso, [48]

ADDITIONS TO REVISED EDITION. BOOK I.

• Civil Service Reform Bill in Congress, [313]
• Cleveland’s Administration, [320]
• Discontent of 1882, [307]
• “Groundswells”, [304]
• Independent Republican Revolt in Pennsylvania, [307]
• Political Changes in 1882, [304]
• Prohibitory Amendments, [306]
• Republican Differences—Efforts to Harmonize, [307]–313
• Revenue Taxes, Attempt to Repeal, [305]
• Tariff, Attempt to Reduce, [305]
• Tariff Commission, [305]
• “Tidal waves,” [304]
• Political Changes in 1883, [314]
• State Elections of 1882 and 1883 compared with the Presidential Election of 1880, [315]
• Political Changes in 1884, [316]
• The Vote in Detail, [317]
• The Campaign of 1884, [318]
• Contests of 1886–7, [322]
• The Campaign of 1888, [326]
• President Harrison’s Message on the Chilean Troubles, [339]
• National Conventions of 1892, [347]

BOOK II.
POLITICAL PLATFORMS.

• Date. Page.
• 1796 Washington’s Farewell Address to the People, [2014]
• 1798 Virginia Resolutions, [2003]
• 1799 Answers of the Several State Legislatures, [2006]
• 1798–99 Resolutions of 1798 and 1799, [2010]
• 1800 Republican Platform, Philadelphia, [2021]
• 1812 Clintonian Platform, [2022]
• 1815 Resolutions passed by Hartford Convention, [2023]
• 1830 Anti-masonic resolution, [2024]
• 1832 National Democratic Platform, [2024]
• 1836 Locofoco Platform, [2024]
• 1836 Whig Resolutions, [2024]
• 1839 Abolition Resolution, [2025]
• 1840–48 Abolition Platform, [2025]
• 1840 Democratic Platform, [2025]
• 1843 Liberty Platform, [2026]
• 1844 Whig Platform, [2027]
• 1844 Democratic Platform, [2028]
• 1848 Democratic Platform, [2028]
• 1848 Whig Principles adopted at a Republican meeting, [2030]
• 1848 Buffalo Platform, [2030]
• 1852 Democratic Platform, [2032]
• 1852 Whig Platform, [2033]
• 1852 Free-Soil Platform, [2034]
• 1856 American Platform, [2035]
• 1856 Democratic Platform, [2036]
• 1856 Republican Platform, [2039]
• 1856 Whig Platform, [2040]
• 1860 Constitutional Union Platform, [2041]
• 1860 Republican Platform, [2041]
• 1860 Democratic (Douglas) Platform, [2043]
• 1860 Democratic (Breckenridge) Platform, [2043]
• 1864 Radical Platform, [2044]
• 1864 Republican Platform, [2044]
• 1864 Democratic Platform, [2045]
• 1868 Republican Platform, [2046]
• 1868 Democratic Platform, [2047]
• 1872 Labor Reform Platform, [2049]
• 1872 Prohibition Platform, [2050]
• 1872 Liberal Republican Platform, [2050]
• 1872 Democratic Platform, [2051]
• 1872 Republican Platform, [2051]
• 1872 Democratic (Straight-out) Platform, [2053]
• 1875 American National Platform, [2053]
• 1876 Prohibition Reform Platform, [2054]
• 1876 Independent (Greenback) Platform, [2054]
• 1876 Republican Platform, [2055]
• 1876 Democratic Platform, [2057]
• 1878 National Platform, [2059]
• 1879 National Liberal Platform, [2060]
• 1880 Independent Republican Principles, [2060]
• 1880 Republican Platform, [2061]
• 1880 National (Greenback) Platform, [2063]
• 1880 Prohibition Reform Platform, [2064]
• 1880 Democratic Platform, [2066]
• 1880 Virginia Republican, [2067]
• 1880 Virginia Readjuster, [2067]
• 1880 Virginia Democratic, [2068]
• 1884 Democratic Platform, [2069]
• 1884 Republican Platform, [2073]
• 1888 Democratic Platform, [2075]
• 1888 Republican Platform, [2076]
• 1892 Democratic Platform
• 1892 Republican Platform

COMPARISON OF PLATFORM PLANKS ON GREAT POLITICAL QUESTIONS.

• General Party Doctrines, [2079]
• The Rebellion, [2080]
• Home Rule, [2080]
• Internal Improvements, [2082]
• National Debt and Interest, the Public Credit, Repudiation, etc., [2082]
• Resumption, [2083]
• Capital and Labor, [2084]
• Tariff, [2085]
• Education, [2086]
• Duty to Union Soldiers and Sailors, [2086]
• Naturalization and Allegiance, [2087]
• Chinese, [2088]
• Civil Service, [2089]
• The Tariff Issue of 1884, [2090]
• The Tariff and Revenue, 1888, [2091]
• Civil Service Reform, 1888, [2092]
• Pensions, etc., 1888, [2093]
• Pauper Labor, 1888, [2093]
• Foreign Policy, 1888, [2093]
• Comparison of Platform Planks, 1892, [2095]

BOOK III.
GREAT SPEECHES ON GREAT ISSUES.

• Adams, John, [3008]
• Benjamin, Judah P., [3119]
• Benton, Thomas H., [3237]
• Blaine, James G., [3171]–240
• Broomall, John M., [3186]
• Buchanan, James, [3095]
• Calhoun, John C., [3024]–80
• Cass, Lewis, [3096]
• Cameron, J. D., [3233]
• Cameron, Simon, [3162]
• Carey, Henry, [3159]
• Clay, Henry, [3023]–86
• Conkling, Roscoe, [3176]–202
• Davis, Henry Winter, [3115]
• Davis, Jefferson, [3147]
• Dougherty, Daniel, [3205]
• Douglas, Stephen A., [3126]
• Eldridge, Charles A., [3189]
• Everett, Edward, [3018]
• Frye, Wm. P., [3206]
• Garfield, James A., [3203]
• Garrison, William Lloyd, [3120]
• Giddings, Joshua R., [3116]
• Gray, George, [3205]
• Greeley, Horace, [3099]
• Grow, Galusha A., [3123]
• Hayne, Robt. Y., [3021]–25
• Henry, Patrick, [3007]–10
• Hill, Benjamin H., [3207]
• Ingalls, John J., [3262]
• Ingersoll, Robert G., [3201]
• Knott, J. Proctor, [3154]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [3126]
• Logan, John A., [3165]
• Mahone, William, [3217]
• McClure, A. K., [3191]
• McKinley, W. J., Jr., [3277]
• Morrill, Justin S., [3223]
• Morton, Oliver P., [3151]
• Parker, Theodore, [3121]
• Pendleton, G. H., [3251]
• Randall, S. J., [3274]
• Randolph, John, [3013]–20
• Raynor, Kenneth, [3112]
• Seward, William H., [3122]
• Sumner, Charles, [3123]
• Toombs, Robert, [3117]
• Vallandigham, Clement L., [3097]
• Webster, Daniel, [3019]–48
• Wilson, James, [3003]
• Wilson, Henry, [3149]
• Wise, Henry A., [3109]

ADDITIONS TO REVISED EDITION. BOOK III.

• Depew, Chauncey M., [3283]
• Abbett, Leon, [3285]

BOOK IV.
PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE, CONSTITUTION, DECLARATION AND ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION.

• Confederation, articles of, [4008]
• Declaration of Independence, [4003]
• Jefferson’s Manual
  • Absence, Sec. 8, [4026]
  • Adjournment, Sec. 50, [4052]
  • Address, Sec. 10, [4027]
  • Amendment, Sec. 35, [4041]
  • Amendment between the Houses, Sec. 45, [4048]
  • Arrangement of business, Sec. 14, [4029]
  • Assent, Sec. 48, [4050]
  • Bills, Sec. 22, [4033]
  • Bills, commitment, Sec. 26, [4034]
  • Bills, first reading, Sec. 24, [4033]
  • Bills, second reading, Sec. 25, [4033]
  • Bills, third reading, Sec. 40, [4044]
  • Bills, second reading in the House, Sec. 31, [4037]
  • Bills, leave to bring in, Sec. 23, [4033]
  • Bills, recommitment, Sec. 28, [4035]
  • Bills, Report taken up, Sec. 29, [4036]
  • Bills sent to the other House, Sec. 44, [4048]
  • Call of the House, Sec. 7, [4026]
  • Co-existing Questions, Sec. 37, [4043]
  • Committees, Sec. 11, [4027]
  • Committee of the Whole, Sec. 12, [4027]
  • Conferences, Sec. 46, [4049]
  • Division of the House, Sec. 41, [4045]
  • Division of the Question, Sec. 36, [4043]
  • Elections, Sec. 4, [4025]
  • Equivalent Questions, Sec. 38, [4044]
  • Examination of Witnesses, Sec. 13, [4028]
  • Impeachment, Sec. 53, [4054]
  • Importance of adhering to rules, Sec. 1, [4022]
  • Journals, Sec. 49, [4051]
  • Legislature, Sec. 2, [4022]
  • Messages, Sec. 47, [4050]
  • Motions, Sec. 20, [4033]
  • Order, Sec. 15, [4029]
  • Order, in debate, Sec. 17, [4030]
  • Order, respecting papers, Sec. 16, [4030]
  • Orders of the House, Sec. 18, [4032]
  • Petition, Sec. 19, [4032]
  • Previous Questions, Sec. 34, [4040]
  • Privilege, Sec. 3, [4023]
  • Privileged Questions, Sec. 33, [4038]
  • Qualification, Sec. 5, [4025]
  • Quasi-Committee, Sec. 30, [4036]
  • Question, the, Sec. 39, [4044]
  • Quorum, Sec. 6, [4026]
  • Reading Papers, Sec. 32, [4037]
  • Reconsideration, Sec. 43, [4047]
  • Report of Committee, Sec. 27, [4035]
  • Resolutions, Sec. 21, [4033]
  • Session, a, Sec. 51, [4052]
  • Speaker, Sec. 9, [4026]
  • Titles, Sec. 42, [4047]
  • Treaties, Sec. 52, [4052]
  • Ordinance of 1787, [4010]
  • Ratification of Constitution, [4020]
  • Ratification of amendment to Constitution, [4025]