Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Catalogue of Choice Books and Pamphlets, Mainly Americana Including Additional Selections from the Library of the Late Dr. William H. Egle Harrisburg, Pa
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Choice Books & Pamphlets Mainly Americana - Selections from Library of Dr. Wm. H. Egle
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncSale
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2468
Book Description
A Catalogue of Pamphlets and Books, Mainly Americana, Embracing Many Choice Items Relating to New England, Middle, Western and Southern States, American Indians, and a Choice Collection of Lincolniana
Author: William H. MurrayPublisher:
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Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalogue of the Choice Library of the Late Prof. Edward H. Day Concisting of Standard Books of Travel, Geography, Natural History (many with Colored Plates), Americana, Etc., Etc
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Library of Rare Books & Pamphlets, Especially Americana
Author: Bangs & CoEssays on the Constitution of the United States
Author: Paul Leicester FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Anti-Masonic Party in the United States
Author: William Preston VaughnPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081315040X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Here, for the first time in more than eighty years, is a detailed study of political Antimasonry on the national, state, and local levels, based on a survey of existing sources. The Antimasonic party, whose avowed goal was the destruction of the Masonic Lodge and other secret societies, was the first influential third party in the United States and introduced the device of the national presidential nominating convention in 1831. Vaughn focuses on the celebrated "Morgan Affair" of 1826, the alleged murder of a former Mason who exposed the fraternity's secrets. Thurlow Weed quickly transformed the crusading spirit aroused by this incident into an anti-Jackson party in New York. From New York, the party soon spread through the Northeast. To achieve success, the Antimasons in most states had to form alliances with the major parties, thus becoming the "flexible minority." After William Wirt's defeat by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1832, the party waned. Where it had been strong, Antimasonry became a reform-minded, anti-Clay faction of the new Whig party and helped to secure the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison in 1836 and 1840. Vaughn concludes that although in many ways the Antimasonic Crusade was finally beneficial to the Masons, it was not until the 1850s that the fraternity regained its strength and influence.
Author: William Henry Egle