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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Defining the Soul of the Nation -- Part three New Issues and Parties: Americans, Republicans, and Divided Democrats, 1854—1860 -- 10 A Few Considerations for Reflecting Voters (New York, 1855?) -- 11 The Parties of the Day. Speech of William H. Seward at Auburn,October 21, 1856 (Washington, 1857) -- 12 The Conspiracy to Break Up the Union. The Plot and Its Development . . . (Washington, 1860) -- 13 Salient Points of the Campaign . . . (Springfield, 1860) -- Part four The Culmination of the Battle for the part four Soul of America, 1861–1876 -- 14 An Address . . . to the People of the States Which Adhere to the Federal Government (Washington, 1864) -- 15 "Union" on Dis-Union Principles! The Chicago Platform, McClellan's Letter of Acceptance . . . A Speech Delivered by Abram Wakeman, of New York, . . . Nov. 3, 1864 (New York, 1864) -- 16 Modern Philanthropy Illustrated. How They Tried to Make a White Man of a Negro . . . (n.p., 1868) -- 17 The Three Secession Movements in the United States. Samuel J. Tilden, . . . the Adviser, Aider, and Abettor of the Great Secession Movement of 1860 . . . (Boston, 1876)

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Defining the Soul of the Nation -- Part Three: New Issues and Parties: Americans, Republicans, and Divided Democrats, 1854-1860 -- 10. A Few Considerations for Reflecting Voters (New York, 1855?) -- 11. The Parties of the Day. Speech of William H. Seward at Auburn, October 21, 1856 (Washington, 1857) -- 12. The Conspiracy to Break Up the Union. The Plot and Its Development. Breckinridge and Lane the Candidates of a Disunion Party (Washington, 1860) -- 13 Salient Points of the Campaign. A Tract Issued by the Ill[inois] Republican State Central Committee (Springfield, 1860) -- Part Four: The Culmination of the Battle for the Soul of America, 1861-1876 -- 14. An Address to the People of the States, and Particularly to the People of the States Which Adhere to the Federal Government (Washington, 1864) -- 15. "Union" on Dis-Union Principles! The Chicago Platform, McClellan's Letter of Acceptance, and Pendleton's Haskin Letter, Reviewed and Exposed. A Speech Delivered by Abram Wakeman, of New York, at Greenfield Hill, Conn., Nov. 3, 1864 (New York, 1864) -- 16. Modern Philanthropy Illustrated. How They Tried to Make a White Man of a Negro Twenty Five Hundred Years Ago. Will Better Success Attend the Experiment Now? (n.p., 1868) -- 17. The Three Secession Movements in the United States. Samuel J.Tilden . . . the Adviser, Aider, and Abettor of the Great Secession Movement of 1860 . . . His Claims as a Statesman and Reformer Considered (Boston, 1876).

"Eminent political historian Silbey has produced a definitive account of the pivotal U.S. presidential election of 1848 in this briskly written but thoroughly researched book. He provides a thorough introduction to both the issues and the candidates that defined this three-way struggle between Democrats, Whigs, and the emergent Free-Soil coalition. Students and scholars of the antebellum U.S. will benefit greatly from Silbey's accessible yet sophisticated and nuanced study. Highly recommended."-Choice "A brisk and cogent analysis of an election campaign that many historians have seen as a harbinger of the breakdown of the two-party system and the coming of the Civil War. Eminently useful for scholars of this momentous campaign in particular and students of nineteenth-century political history in general."-Civil War History "The book has an excellent description of the nature and mechanics of an antebellum presidential election. . . . Silbey rejects the Civil War synthesis that the sectional animosity of the 1848 campaign is central to the political debate and further a sign of impending civil war. . . . for Silbey, party affinity trumps sectionalism in 1848."-Journal of Illinois History "New in this book is Silbey's convincing refutation of the thesis that 1848 clearly marked the rise of the slavery issue, the beginning of the second party system's demise, and a temporary pause in partisanship. Silbey argues that the election revealed an enduring partisanship among most Americans, with sectionalism taking hold only among elite party leaders. . . . For a political history of how partisanship stifled sectional tensions in 1848, readers can do no better than this fine book."-Journal of American History "Throughout this account, one gains a sense not only of the flow and contingency of events, but also of the basic structure and practice of politics

Intro -- Contents -- Joint Preface -- Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The U.S. Two-Party System: Past and Present ( Several Methodological Problems for Research) -- Comment -- Response -- The Origins of the American Political Parties in the United States -- Democrats and Whigs -- Comment -- Response -- Parties and Political Debates in the Secession Crisis (1860-1861) -- Conservatism versus Revolution -- Comment -- Response -- Silver against Gold -- The Democratic Party in Opposition -- Comment -- Response -- Alfred E. Smith and the Conservative Political Tradition in the 1920s-1930s -- Comment -- Electoral Strategy of the Republican Party in the 1970s Early 1980s -- Comment -- Response -- Several Conclusions from Studying the History of the U. S. Two- Party System -- Comment -- Response -- Contributors -- Index.

Russian-American Dialogue on the History of U.S. Political Parties is the fourth volume in the Russian-American Dialogues series - a series that brings together scholars in the former Soviet Union and the United States who share an interest in the study of America's heritage and its importance to contemporary Russia. In this valuable work, Russian scholars such as N.V. Sivachev, Alexander S. Manykin, and Vladimir V. Sogrin examine the history of American political parties and the role they played across two centuries. The Russians draw their own conclusions about the durability of the two-party system, giving careful consideration to historical crises - the secessionist movement and the Civil War, the reform era of the Populists and Progressives at the turn of the twentieth century, the Great Depression and the New Deal - in which the two-party structure was tested. Russian perspectives are also applied in analyzing the evolution of particular parties, from the rise and fall of the nineteenth-century Whigs to the shifting balance between twentieth-century Democrats and Republicans. The dialogue is then developed through commentaries by American historians such as Allan G. Bogue and Theodore J. Lowi and through counter-responses, often strongly expressed, by the Russian authors. This lively exchange of ideas helps advance an understanding of key aspects of American party history and offers thought-provoking discussions of comparative international studies and historiography. Because the book provides unique perspectives on the American partisan experience by non-American specialists, it will be welcomed by all historians, as well as by anyone with an interest in the American-Russian connection.

The 19th century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey attempts to capture the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets.