Proposes o Allow People of Kansas to prohibit

Slavery

South Carolina, Florida, and Texas withdraws.

Arkansas retires..

81

Georgia retires..

Louisiana withdraws; Speech of Wm. B. Gaulden

of Georgia in favor of the Slave-Trade

Fruitless ballots (57) for President; Adjournment

to Baltimore; The Seceders at Charleston; Se-

nator Bayard, of Delaware, Chairman; They

adopt the Avery Platform

They adjourn to Richmond; They meet at Rich-

mond June 11; They finally adopt Breckin-

ridge and Lane; The adjourned Convention at

timore; Gen. Cushing's opening Speech.

Mr. Howard, of Tennessee, moves admission of

original Delegates; Mr. Kavanagh, of Minne-

sota, moves to lay on table; Previous question

defeated.

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42

43

9

44

45

9

46

CLINGMAN, THOMAS L., of North Carolina,

for Dissolution...

CLINTON, DE WITT, defeated for President
CLINTON, GEORGE, chosen Vice-President,

1804.

Proposition of Mr. S. E. Church, of New-York;

Report of Committee on Credentials

Minority Report of do.; Admission of Douglas
Delegates from Louisiana and Alabama..

Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland

and California withdraw..

Delaware, and part of Kentucky, and Missouri

withdraw; Gen. Cushing resigns the Chair;

Gen. Butler, of Massachusetts, offers a pro-

test.....

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM (Davis's Resolu-

tions), adopted by the United States Senate, affirm-

ing the duty of Congress to establish a Slave Code

in the Territories

DICKINSON, DANIEL S., of New-York, sup-

ported for President in Democratic National Con-

vention, 1860

9

10

172

41

29

47

48

DIX, Gen. JOHN A., advocates Freedom

for the Territories in the United States............

DISUNION AVOWED by Southern Statesmen

in the event of the election of a Republican Presi-

dent.

207

170

18

23

41

Nominated at Baltimore in 1860

48

Proposes to extend the Missouri Compromise to

the Pacific

74

Mr. Douglas' reply to Lincoln at Freeport....

Mr. Douglas' "Harper" Essay on Popular So-

vereignty in the Territories..

130

132

Also in 1849...

201

Speech at Springfield, Ill., June 12, 1857.

154

Speech on the John Brown raid, July 16, 1860,

proposing a Sedition Law....

159

He tells what Popular Sovereignty has done for

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.-First

Slavery.

159

Accepts Nomination for Presidency..

212

Second at Baltimore in 1885

11

Extract from Speech in favor of Missouri Com-

Third Democratic National Convention, 1840

215

.....

12

13

13

14

No Platform adopted openly by Whig Con-

vention, 1848..

15

Democratic National Platform, 1848.

Buffalo Free Soil Platform, 1848.

Whig National Platform, 1852..

Democratic National Platform, 1852.

Free Democratic Platform, 1852.

Republican National Platform, 1856.

American National Platform, 1856.

Democratic National Platform, 1856.

Whig National Platform, 1856.

Republican National Platform, 1860.

Constitutional Union Party Platform, 1860..

Democratic (Douglas) Platform of 1860...

Addition thereto by Baltimore Convention.

Seceders' Platform adopted at Charleston..

The same readopted by the seceders' (Breckin-

ridge) Convention at Baltimore...

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17

18

20

21

23

24

29

No Platform adopted by second Democratic

Convention; no Platform adopted by Whig

Convention at Harrisburg, 1839; First Demo-

cratic National Platform, 1840.

Whig National Platform, 1844..

Democratic National Platform, 1844

Liberty Party Platform, 1844

PACK!

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48

41

Slavery Restriction proposed by Gen. James

Tallmadge of N. Y.; Proposition sustained by

the House; Remarks thereon by Mr. T. Fuller

of Mass...

Senate asks a Conference.

Compromise finally carried in the House by 90

Yeas (14 only from Free States) to $7 Nays

(all from Free States)....

The third Missouri Struggle; Enlargement of
Missouri in 1836; Annexation of Texas..
Address of John Q. Adams and other Whig
members against such Annexation....
Mr. Calhoun's dispatch to Mr. King; Mr. John
P. Hale proposes a division of Texas.

Annexation project of Milton Brown of Tenn. ;

Adopted, Yeas 118, Nays 101; Proposition of

Mr. Foster of Tenn...

Annexation carried in Senate, 26 to 25; The

Wilmot Proviso.....

173

The Clayton Compromise; Mr. J. M. Root's Re-
solve for Slavery Restriction; Proposition of
Isaac P. Walker of Wisconsin..

Proposition of Mr. Richard W. Thompson, of

Ind.; Slavery excluded from Oregon Terri-

tory...

12

10

RUSK, Gen. THOMAS J., of Texas, beaten

for Vice-President in Democratic National Con-

vention, 1852......

20

Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, proposes to extend the
Missouri line of restriction to the Pacific....

Senate agrees, but House refuses; The Compro-

mise of 1850; Gen. Taylor's recommenda-

tions; Gen. Sam Houston's proposition; Hen-

ry Clay's plan of Compromise; John Bell's

proposition..

Objections to Mr. Clay's scheme by Foote of

Miss. and Mason, of Va...

15

Letter accepting nomination for President,

Ditto by Jefferson Davis of Miss.; Mr. Clay

in reply; Messrs. Downs of La., King of Ala.,

and Butler of S. C., in further opposition to

Mr. Clay..

Mr. Foote of Miss. moves a Committee of Thir-

teen; Mr. Clay reports from said Committee;

Mr. Jefferson Davis's Amendment..

Mr. Chase of Ohio moves a prohibition of Sla-

very; The Omnibus defeated as a whole, but

passed in separate bills; The Kansas-Nebraska

Struggle.

27

His "Irrepressible Conflict " Speech at Roches-

Mr. Atchison's remarks thereon; President

Pierce protests against the renewal of agita-

tion; Mr. Douglas's first Nebraska Report...

He amends his bill; Mr. Chase proposes to au-

thorize the people of Kansas to prohibit Sla-

very therein; Opposed by Messrs. Bell, Doug-

las, etc., and defeated..

Mr. Clayton's "American" amendment; Mr.

Chase moves that the people of the Territory

be authorized to elect their own Governor;

Defeated by 30 to 10; Mr. Seward's speech

against the bill....

The Kansas-Nebraska bill passes the Senate

The Lecompton bill; Passed in the Senate, but

defeated in the House; The Crittenden-Mont-

gomery substitute..

VOTE IN WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION,

1852, on Resolve approving Compromise Measures

of 1850..

121

122

19

24

Yeas and Nays on adopting substitu e..

Senate refuses to concur; Mr. English moves a

Conference Committee; Carried by the Speak-

er's casting vote; The English Compromise

bill..

Carried through both Houses; The Wyandot
Convention and Constitution..
Mr. Grow proposes, and the House votes to ad-
mit Kansas under the Wyandot Constitution;
Senate refuses to act on the bill....

SLAVE-TRADE ADVOCATED in Democratic

National Convention by Mr. Gaulden, of Georgia.

Also by Governor Adams, of S. C., in Message to

Legislature

SPENCER, AMBROSE, of New-York, Presi-

dent Whig National Convention, 1844

SPENCER, JOHN C, of New-York, Presi-

dent Anti-Masonic National Convention

STEVENSON, ANDREW, of Virginia, Presi-

dent Second Democratic National Convention.....

Ditto, President National Democratic Conven-

tion, 1948...

STRANGE, ROBERT, of North Carolina, beaten

for Vice-President in Democratic Convention,

1852

SUMNER, CHARLES, of Massachusetts, de-

feated for Vice-President in Republican National

Convention, 1856..

SUPREME COURT, POWER AND DUTIES OF-
Opinions of Thomas Jefferson..

WARD, JOHN E., of Georgia, President of

the Democratic National Convention, 1856........

WEBSTER, DANIEL, of Massachusetts, sup-

ported by Massachusetts for President, 1836

Defeated for President in Whig Convention, 1848

Beaten for President in Whig Convention, 1852..

Memorial to Congress for Slavery Restriction

His view on the powers of Supreme Court....

Speech against Slavery Extension.

WELLER, Col. JOHN B., of California,

beaten for Vice-President in Democratic National

Convention, 1852

12

15

18

59

177

202

20

39

WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, held at Har-

208

risburg, Penn., 1839

12

Held at Baltimore, Md., 1844

13

Held at Philadelphia, Penn., 1848.

15

13

Held at Baltimore, Md., 1852

Held at Baltimore, Md., 1856

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