[NEBRASKA AND KANSAS, 1854-1861]
THE MIDDLE PERIOD
CHAPTER I.
THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE OLD REPUBLICAN PARTY
[General Character of the Acts of the Fourteenth Congress]—[Madison's Message of December 5th, 1815]—[Change in the Principles of the Republican Party]—[The United States Bank Act of 1816]—[Report of the Bank Bill by Mr. Calhoun]—[Mr. Calhoun's Argument in Favor of the Bill]—[Webster's Objections to the Bank Bill]—[Mr. Clay's Support of the Bank Bill]—[Passage of the Bank Bill by the House of Representatives]—[The Passage of the Bank Bill by the Senate]—[The United States Bank of 1816 a Southern Measure]—[The Tariff Bill Framed by the Committee on Ways and Means]—[The Tariff Bill Reported]—[The Character of the Tariff Bill]—[Mr. Calhoun's Speech upon the Tariff Bill]—[The Passage of the Tariff Bill]—[The Army and Navy Bills]—[The Bill for National Improvements]—[Mr. Calhoun's Advocacy of this Bill]—[The Opposition to the Internal Improvements Bill]—[Passage of the Bill by Congress]—[Veto of the Bill by the President]—[The Failure of Congress to Override the Veto.]
It is no part of my task to relate the events of the War of 1812-15. That has already been sufficiently done in the preceding volume of this series. I take up the threads of the narrative at the beginning of the year 1816, and my problem in this chapter will be to expound the acts and policies of the Fourteenth Congress in the light of the experiences of that War.