Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Titles
Author: Atlanta University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. CurranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Author: Ellen Douglas LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
After the People Vote
Author: Norman J. OrnsteinPublisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The new edition of this popular guide examines how the electoral college and postelection processes work and includes a short history of contested elections.
One Hundred Years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Author: James Walker HoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
How Bills Become Laws
Author: Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
History of Woman Suffrage: 1900-1920
Author: Elizabeth Cady StantonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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.