Edward Stanly: Whiggerys Tarheel ConquerBiography of a fiery and controversial representative of Whiggery This biography of Edward Stanly relates the major political events of his life: his emergence, while still in his twenties, as a fiery and controversial leader of the Whig Party in North Carolina, his role as one of the ablest champions of Whiggery in the United States House of Representatives, 1837–1843; his candidacy for governor of California on the Republican ticket in 1857; his appointment by President Abraham Lincoln as military governor of North Carolina in 1862; and his support in California of President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction policy. Raised under the “Ancient Standard of Federalism,” Edward Stanly was a southern nationalist in the tradition of the two great Virginia Federalists, George Washington and John Marshall. An outspoken opponent of the nullification and secession doctrines of party of section in national politics. |
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Contents
1 The Ancient Standard of Federalism | 1 |
2 Encounter With a Connecticut Nightingale | 30 |
3 The Little Conqueror | 46 |
4 On Stanly On | 58 |
5 The War With Captain Tyler | 75 |
6 Apple of Discord | 94 |
7 A Most Extraordinary Course | 126 |
8 Stanly and the Party Divided | 157 |
9 In the Land of Gold | 171 |
10 Mission of Love | 201 |
11 A Barren Sceptre | 230 |
12 An Inveterate OldLine Whig | 254 |
Notes | 277 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index | 351 |
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