The rise and fall of the American Whig Party : Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War

PrefaceAcknowledgments1: "Not Fitted to Make Converts"2: "To Rescue the Government and Public Library"3: "No Opposition Man Can Be Elected President"4: "We Have Many Recruits in Our Ranks from the Pressure of the Times"5: "Harrison and Prosperity or Van Buren and Ruin"6: "The Whig Party Seems Now Totally Broken Up and Dismembered"7: "The Whigs Are in High Spirits"8: "The Present Administration Are Your Best Recruiting Officers"9: "The Contest for President Should Be Regarded as a Contest of Principles"10: "We Must Have the Aid of Gunpowder"11: "Stimulate Every Whig to Turn Out"12: "Many Discordant Political Interests to Reconcile"13: "Patronage Is a Dangerous Element of Power"14: "The Slavery Excitement Seems Likely to Obliterate Party Lines"15: "The Long Agony Is Over"16: "God Save Us from Whig Vice Presidents"17: "Fillmore...Is Precisely the Man for the Occasion"18: "Webster Is Now Engaged in Strenuous Efforts to Secure the Succession"19: "Scott & Scott Alone Is the Man for the Emergency"20: "Like Pissing Against the Wind"21: "Now Is the Time to Start New; the Old Issues Are Gone"22: "This Nebraska Business Will Entirely Denationalize the Whig Party"23: "The Whig Party, as a Party, Are Entirely Disbanded"24: "Confusion Worse Confounded"25: "Let, Then, the Whig Party Pass"26: "The Whig Party Is Dead and Buried"NotesAbbreviations Used in NotesBibliographyIndex