. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. CHARLES ^^^f^mm. PRESTON S. BROOKS. 27 417 418 POLITICAL HISTORY. of native-born and naturalized citizens of any Territory to frametheir
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. CHARLES ^^^f^mm. PRESTON S. BROOKS. 27 417 418 POLITICAL HISTORY. of native-born and naturalized citizens of any Territory to frametheir own constitution and laws, and regulate their social affairsin their own way. (6) A residence of twenty-one years as ne-cessary to naturalization. On account of the failure of theconvention to recognize the right of Congress to re-establishthe Missouri Compromise line, the anti-slavery delegateswithdrew, and threw their strength to the coming Republicanparty. The Democratic Convention met at Cincinnati, June 2, 1856,and nominated James Buchanan, Pennsylvania, for President, andJohn C. Breckinridge, Kentucky, for Vice-President. The plat-form endorsed preceding ones, and added, (i) Opposition toAmericanism. (2) No more revenue than is necessary to defrayexpenses. (3) No general system of Internal Improvement. (4)Strict construction of Federal powers, (5) No National Bank.(6) No interference with Slavery in the Territories, the peopleto have the right to settl
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