The political history of the United States - or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and (14781399451)

Identifier: politicalhistory00boyd (find matches)
Title: The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
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Publisher: Philadelphia Chicago : P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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The Democrats in Congresshad fostered the sentiment. In the spring of 1871 there hadbeen an actual fusion of the Liberal Republicans and Democratsin Ohio. The leaders denounced the Enforcement acts of Con-gress and the efforts of the administration to bring about Recon-struction under them. On the basis of a common feeling it wasthought the Democratic party could be captured by the move-ment. A call was issued from Missouri, Jan. 24, 1872, for aNational Convention of Liberal Republicans, at Cincinnati, onMay I. It nominated Horace Greeley, N. Y., for President, andB. Gratz Brown, Mo., for Vice-President. The platform (i) re-cognized the equality of all men; (2) pledged the party toUnion, emancipation, enfranchisement, and to oppose the open-ing of any question settled by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth andFifteenth Amendments; (3) demanded the immediate removalof all disabilities; (4) local self-government with impartial suf-frage, for the nation a return to the methods of peace; (5) Thor-
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HORACE GREELEY.