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The difficulties involved in building the Federal Republic |
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Danger of immediate Dissolution |
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Note written by Thomas Jefferson |
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Instructions for the Deputies appointed by Virginia in 1774 to meet in General Congress |
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Bill of Rights passed by the Continental Congress, Oct. 14, 1774 |
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Articles of Association passed by the Continental Congress, Oct. 20, 1774 |
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Jefferson's Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence, reported July 4, 1776 |
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Digest of the Articles of Confederation passed by the Continental Congress, July 9, 1778 |
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Hamilton's Plan of Government, laid before the Constitutional Convention of 1787 |
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The Nullification Resolutions of 1798 |
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The Federal Party in power |
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The people strongly sympathetic with France |
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The leaders, especially in New England, devoted to England |
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The Jay Treaty with Great Britain |
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Hamilton clashes with President Adams |
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Passage of partisan measures by Federals in Congress |
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The new Naturalization law |
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The Alien and Sedition Acts |
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Their tyrannous character |
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Their nullification by the Legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky |
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Two questions involved: First, who were the contracting parties to the formation of the United States; Second, who should decide whether Congressional enactments were Constitutional |
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The people the final arbiter |
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Conflicts with the Supreme Court |
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Plots of Hamilton with Great Britain to attack Spanish possessions |
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Adams opposes and establishes a treaty with France |
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The Federal party rent into fragments |
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The Alien Act, June 25, 1798 |
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The Sedition Act, July 14, 1798 |
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The Virginia Resolutions, December 24, 1798 |
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Mr. Madison's report on these Resolutions, 1799 |
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Plot for a Northern Confederacy in 1803-4 |
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Jefferson elected, and Federalists out of power in 1800 |
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Effort to prevent the Presidency from being given to Jefferson |
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The Federal party consists of Hamiltonians; friends of Adams; and the Essex Junto; all believers in the rule of the Best |
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The third section plots for the withdrawal of New England from the Union |
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A Union is formed with Burr in New York |
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The latter being defeated challenges Hamilton and shoots him |
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He carries the maledictions of the Federals and contempt of the Republicans |
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The Tory Refugees in New York |
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Letter of Hamilton to Jay |
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Letter of Burr just before the Duel |
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Letter of Hamilton just before the Duel |
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Note of Harriet Martineau on Duelling |
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Burr's Attempt at Cleaving the Union in the Southwest |
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The Union vastly enlarged by the Louisiana Purchase |
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Burr in desperation turns to the Southwest |
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He forms alliance with General Wilkinson; is befriended by Jackson |
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He aims at a great Mississippi Valley Confederation |
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The people true to the Union |
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Burr plots in all directions; starts to New Orleans with a flotilla; is arrested |
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Burr's trial at Richmond a fiasco |
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Burr goes to England; is ordered out of the country; goes to France; is kept under surveillance |
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Released, he hurries to America |
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His later history one of wretchedness |
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Burr's Valedictory to the United States Senate |
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President Jefferson's Message on the Burr Conspiracy |
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Testimony of William Eaton |
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New England Nullification in 1812--14 |
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Interference with Neutral Rights by England |
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The Berlin and Milan Decrees of Napoleon |
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Congress declares war against Great Britain |
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Efforts to thwart our enlistments |
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Disaster on land, but success on the ocean |
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New England Federals urge their acceptance |
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Resolutions looking towards separation |
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The triumph of American diplomacy at Ghent, and of American arms at New Orleans |
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Report of the Hartford Convention |
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Resolutions of the Hartford Convention |
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South Carolina Nullification in 1832 |
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The origin of the Canning-Monroe Doctrine of 1823 |
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
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A geographical line established between free and slave labor |
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Growth of the protective tariff principle |
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Agricultural States protest |
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South Carolina votes to nullify the tariff action of 1832 |
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Clay brings in a Compromise Bill, reducing the tariff to its old basis |
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Characteristics of Massachusetts and of South Carolina |
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Jefferson on the Proposal of Canning |
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President Monroe's Message |
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Nullification Ordinance of South Carolina |
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Digest of the Address of the South Carolina Convention |
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Digest of Appeal to the People of the United States |
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Webster's Four Propositions |
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Sectionalism fully developed |
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The struggle of free labor with slave labor inevitable |
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The question one both of economics and morals |
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Compromise efforts of 1850 |
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Freedom declared national |
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Slavery declared national |
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Abolition of Compromises in 1854 |
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Slavery as a Social principle abrogated by civilization |
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The Indissolubility of the Union, except by revolution, established |
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Digest of the Ostend Manifesto |
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Abolition of the Compromise of 1820 |
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South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession |
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Greeley on the Rights of Secession |
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Proclamation of Emancipation |
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Amendments to the Constitution following Emancipation |
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The Proposed XIIIth Amendment |
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Summary of dangers to permanency of the Republic |
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Second, the problem of Ignorance |
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Third, the problem of Expansion |
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Fourth, Spoliation of the Rich |
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Fifth, Spoliation of the Poor |
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Sixth, the policy of protecting special industries |
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Eighth, Failure of Popular Government |
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Appendix to Concluding Chapter |
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Extract from Hon. T. M. Cooley on Centralization |
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Extract from Hon. Thomas F. Bayard on Individual Freedom |
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Index |
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