ISBN: 9781154417517

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not … Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... there were many passed, whose chief staple consisted in thanks, gold medals, and glory.* Long before adjournment the national party conventions had been held and the rival national candidates placed before the people. The convention of the Democracy and administration met first in the city of Baltimore. Two rival delegations from the Empire ''State brought hither the clash of ideas which patronage and the Mexican War had fostered, -- the hunkers, whose chieftains were Marcy and Dickinson, and the barnburners, or progressive Democrats of the Silas Wright school, among whom were John A. Dix, Preston King, Cambreling, and young Samuel J. Tilden, also the lively and versatile John Van Buren, son of the ex-President. The convention deciding to admit both sets of delegates equally, the barnburners, who were pledged to the Wilmot Proviso, withdrew under protest. The convention adopted the traditional two-thirds rule, and under it Lewis Cass of Michigan, who led the list from the start, was nominated for President on the fourth ballot; William 0. Butler of Kentucky being next selected for Vice President. Cass was the statesman whom Lincoln''s inelegant satire in the House ridiculed as an ox which retreated while the farmer brandished his goad. No man from the free States truckled more contemptibly to the slave power in those days. At first, as any plain man from the far North, he had favored the Wilmot Proviso; next, like the meek and heavy brute which heeded its master''s flourish, he had backed to a doubtful position; but now he opposed the proviso altogether, and the farmer''s voice said, soothingly, So ! stand at that. f In taking this last position Cass''s bid for the Presidency came up to Buchanan''s, and Buchanan, in truth, felt a little * See Joint Re... Julian Hawthorne, Books, History, United States, From the Discovery of the North American Continent to the Present Time (Volume 6) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781154417517

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not … Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... there were many passed, whose chief staple consisted in thanks, gold medals, and glory.* Long before adjournment the national party conventions had been held and the rival national candidates placed before the people. The convention of the Democracy and administration met first in the city of Baltimore. Two rival delegations from the Empire ''State brought hither the clash of ideas which patronage and the Mexican War had fostered, -- the hunkers, whose chieftains were Marcy and Dickinson, and the barnburners, or progressive Democrats of the Silas Wright school, among whom were John A. Dix, Preston King, Cambreling, and young Samuel J. Tilden, also the lively and versatile John Van Buren, son of the ex-President. The convention deciding to admit both sets of delegates equally, the barnburners, who were pledged to the Wilmot Proviso, withdrew under protest. The convention adopted the traditional two-thirds rule, and under it Lewis Cass of Michigan, who led the list from the start, was nominated for President on the fourth ballot; William 0. Butler of Kentucky being next selected for Vice President. Cass was the statesman whom Lincoln''s inelegant satire in the House ridiculed as an ox which retreated while the farmer brandished his goad. No man from the free States truckled more contemptibly to the slave power in those days. At first, as any plain man from the far North, he had favored the Wilmot Proviso; next, like the meek and heavy brute which heeded its master''s flourish, he had backed to a doubtful position; but now he opposed the proviso altogether, and the farmer''s voice said, soothingly, So ! stand at that. f In taking this last position Cass''s bid for the Presidency came up to Buchanan''s, and Buchanan, in truth, felt a little * See Joint Re... Julian Hawthorne, Books, History, United States, From the Discovery of the North American Continent to the Present Time (Volume 6) Books>History <