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It didn't take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton's warning: slavery attached itself to every measure before the U.S. Congress. Douglas' wanted to expand the nation into an ocean-bound free republic yet slavery, and the violent conflicts it stirred, always interfered, as it did with his 1844 bill to organize Nebraska. In 1848, when America acquired 550,000 square miles after the Mexican War, the fight began over whether the territory would be free or slave. Henry Clay, a slave owner who favored gradual emancipation, packaged territorial bills from Douglas' committee with four others. But Clay's "Omnibus Bill" failed. Exhausted, he left the Senate, leaving Douglas in control. Within two weeks, Douglas won passage of all eight bills and President Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850, Douglas' greatest legislative achievement. This book chronicles how his popular sovereignty doctrine moved the issue of slavery out of Congress on into the ballot box.
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Journalists, 19th-century historians and political history readers should all find this volume of William Cullen Bryant's editorials for the New York "Evening Post" to be a valuable resource. Renowned as America's premier poet, Bryant's ideas and ideologies were deeply woven into the political, social and cultural life of New York and the nation. As chief editor and principal owner of the New York "Evening Post" for 51 years, Bryant's prose became equally influential, punctuated as it was with his characteristic ironic wit and clear-headed arguments which cut to the heart of the issue at hand. The paper had been started in 1801 by another young lawyer, William Coleman, in association with the Federalist politician Alexander Hamilton. Coleman hired Bryant as a reporter, probably based on his emergence as a poet, but Bryant had previous experience as editor and writer for both the "New York Review" and the "United States Review". When Coleman died in 1829, Bryant took control of the paper and brought the conservative journal to the support of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party. Free trade, free labour and Free Soil became the defining ideas advocated in the paper's pages for the next 51 years. This volume traces the growth of Bryant's political and social maturity as he made over a conservative, parochial, small-city newspaper into a national organ which in 1850 Charles Francis Adams called "the best daily journal in the United States".
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• I.-XI. Speeches, state papers and correspondence, 1813-1868.
• XII. Biographical: 1. Mr. Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 1866. 2. Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, by W.U. Hensel. 1908. 3. Autobiographical sketch, 1791-1828. 4. Biographical sketch, by J.B. Henry. [General] index.

• v
• .1. A Disquisition on government and a discourse on the Constitution and government of the United States.--v.2
• -4. Speeches delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the United States.--v. 5
• -6. Reports and public letters.

• The importance of illustrating New England history by a series of romances like the Waverley novels.--The colonial age of New England.--The age of the Pilgrims the heroic period of our history.--The power of a state developed by mental culture.--The position and functions of the American bar, as an element of conservatism in the state.--The eloquence of revolutionary periods.--Address delivered in South Danvers, at the dedication of the Peabody institute, September 29, 1854.--Remarks before the Circuit court on the death of Mr. Webster.--A discourse commemorative of Daniel Webster.--Speech before the Young men's Whig club of Boston, on the annexation of Texas.--Speech on the judicial tenure.--Speech delivered at the constitutional meeting in Faneuil hall, November 26, 1850.--Speech delivered in Faneuil hall, October 31, 1855.--Speech "on the political topics now prominent before the country" ... October 28, 1856.--American nationality.--Speech on the birthday of Daniel Webster, January 18, 1859.

• v. 1. Memoir. Lectures and addresses.--
• v. 2. Speeches in the Senate of the United States. Miscellaneous speeches. Appendix.

• v. 1. The rising statesman, 1797-1814.--
• v. 2. The rising statesman, 1815-1820.--
• v. 3. Presidential candidate, 1821-1824.--v. 4-7. Secretary of State, 1825-1829.--
• v. 8. Candidate, compromiser, Whig, 1829-1836.--
• v. 9. The Whig leader, January 1, 1837-December 31, 1843.--
• v. 10. Candidate, compromiser, elder statesman, January 1, 1844-June 29, 1852.--[11]. Supplement, 1793-1852.
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• v. 1-3. Introduction, by Thomas B. Reed. Life and times of Henry Clay. Correspondence of Henry Clay, 1843 to 1851. With collateral letters and notes. Ed. by Thomas B. Stevenson.--v. 4-5. Private correspondence, 1801-1852.--v. 6-9. Speeches.--
• v. 10. The tariff, a history of tariff legislation from 1812-1896, by William McKinley.

Donald Cole analyzes the political skills that brought Van Buren the nickname Little Magician, " describing how he built the Albany Regency (which became a model for political party machines) and how he created the Democratic party of Andrew Jackson. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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