| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 365 pages) |
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Southern historical publications ; no. 18 |
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Southern historical publications ; no. 18.
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| Contents |
Preface; 1. The Ancient Standard of Federalism; 2. Encounter With a Connecticut Nightingale; 3. The Little Conqueror; 4. On, Stanly, On!; 5. The War With Captain Tyler; 6. Apple of Discord; 7. A Most Extraordinary Course; 8. Stanly and the Party Divided; 9. In the Land of Gold; 10. Mission of Love; 11. A Barren Sceptre; 12. An Inveterate Old-Line Whig; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Raised under the "Ancient Standard of Federalism," Edward Stanly was a southern nationalist during a time of popular nullification and secession doctrines. Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel Conqueror is an unprecedented biography of Stanly's life, and recounts his fiery and controversial emergence in the Whig Party of North Carolina in the 1930s, his role as a champion of Whiggery in the United States House of Representatives 1837-1843 and 1849-1853, his candidacy for governor of California in 1857, his appointment by President Abraham Lincoln as a military governor of N |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Stanly, Edward, 1810-1872.
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| SUBJECT |
Stanly, Edward, 1810-1872 fast |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817382636 |
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0817382631 |
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0817312919 |
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9780817312916 |
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