Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249).
Contents
Prologue to Whiggery / John Quincy Adams -- The promise of industrialization / Edward Everett -- Economic nationalism / Henry Clay -- Economic centralization in a democracy / George Tucker -- The origins of political authority / Daniel Webster -- The limits of political authority / William Henry Harrison -- The Whig interpretation of history / John Pendleton Kennedy -- Whig image-making / Calvin Colton -- The family, the nation, and the church / Daniel D. Barnard -- The educated person in America / Nicholas Biddle -- Religious ideology and political freedom / Lyman Beecher -- Education as a means of social control / Horace Mann -- Whig myth-making / Rufus Choate -- Whig philanthropy / Joseph Tuckerman -- The rights of the Indians / Theodore Frelinghuysen -- An unjust war / Thomas Corwin -- Conscience Whiggery / Charles Sumner -- The higher law / William H. Seward -- The mysic chords of union / Abraham Lincoln.
