. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . roved the settlement of 1850; Scott did not. Ste-phens, with Charles G. Faulkner, Walker Brooke,Alexander White, James Abercrombie. RobertToombs, James Johnson, Christopher H. Williams,and Meredith P. Gentry, killed the Whig party for-ever by their famous card of 3 July, 1852, givingtheir reasons for refusing to support Gen. wrote it. Daniel Webster was nominatedwithout a party, but died, and Toombs and Ste-phens voted for him after he was dead. In 1854Mr. Stephens defended the principles of the Kan-sas-Nebraska act, as embodying
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . roved the settlement of 1850; Scott did not. Ste-phens, with Charles G. Faulkner, Walker Brooke,Alexander White, James Abercrombie. RobertToombs, James Johnson, Christopher H. Williams,and Meredith P. Gentry, killed the Whig party for-ever by their famous card of 3 July, 1852, givingtheir reasons for refusing to support Gen. wrote it. Daniel Webster was nominatedwithout a party, but died, and Toombs and Ste-phens voted for him after he was dead. In 1854Mr. Stephens defended the principles of the Kan-sas-Nebraska act, as embodying the principle of1850, the people of the territories left free to formand regulate their own domestic institutions (in-cluding slavery), subject only to the constitutionof the United States. In 1859 he retired fromcongress, and in a farewell speech in Augusta, Ga.,intimated that the only way to get more slaves andsettle the territories with slave-holding voters wasto reopen the African slave-trade. Mr. Stephens seemed a bundle of contradictions,. but he always acted upon reasons and a state-rights man, he supported Harrison in1840. In 1844, though in favor of the acquisitionof Texas, he supported Clay, who said it would re-open the slave issue and make war, as it did. In1*45 he voted with the Democratic party in ad-mitting Texas. In 1846 and 1847 he stood withCalhoim and the Whig party upon the Mexicanwar. His house resolutions in February, 1847. be-came the basis of the Whig reorganization, andGen. Zachary Taylor was elected president on thesame policy in 1848. In 1850 he differed with Fill-more on policy, as he had with Polk, and approvedthe compromise of Clay. In 1854 he was with Ste-phen A. Douglas, and in 1850 aided to elect JamesBuchanan, his extreme foe. In 1859 he resignedhis seat in congress, saying: I saw there wasbound to be a smash-up on the road, and resolvedto jump off at the first station. In 1860 he sup-ported Stephen A. Douglas for the presidenc
Size: 1368px × 1826px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjec, booksubjectbiography
