internal improvement craze in, [53], [54];
adopts resolutions condemning Abolitionists and emancipation in the District, [55];
suffers from financial collapse, [59], [60];
carried by Van Buren against Harrison, [61];
legal profession in, [67], [68];
carried by Democrats in 1844, [71];
upholds Mexican war, [77];
denounces Kansas-Nebraska Act, [95];
senatorial election of 1855 in, [96]-[98];
popular feeling in, concerning Kansas, [108];