America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union / Fergus M. Bordewich.
Chronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.
Record details
- ISBN: 1439124604
- ISBN: 9781439124604
- Physical Description: x, 480 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-463) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- "A frenzy seized my soul" -- One bold stroke -- "Order! Order! Order!" -- "That demon question" -- "Ultima thule" -- Old Harry -- "We have another epidemic" -- The city of magnificent intentions -- Deadlock -- The godlike Daniel -- "A great soul on fire" -- "Wounded eagle" -- "Secession! Peaceful secession!" -- "A higher law" -- God deliver me from such friends" -- "He is not dead, sir!" -- "Let the assassin fire!" -- Filibusters -- "A legislative saturnalia" -- A pact with the devil -- "War, open war" -- "All is paralysis" -- The Omnibus overturned -- "A steam engine in britches" -- "Break your masters' locks!" -- "It is time we should act" -- Triumphs -- "A scandalous outrage" -- The reckoning.
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