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A Political History of the State of New York (Contents)

A Political History of the State of New York (Contents)

by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

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Author
Alexander, De Alva Stanwood, 1845-1925
Title
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
Credits
Curtis Weyant, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
F106: United States local history: Atlantic coast. Middle Atlantic States
Subject
New York (State) -- Politics and government
Category
Text
eBook-No.
22591
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22591
Release Date
September 12, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
  2. 2.BY DeALVA STANWOOD ALEXANDER, A.M., LL.D. Member of Congress, Formerly United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York
  3. 3.CONTENTS — VOL. I — VOL. II — VOL. III — INDEX — A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
  4. 4.BY DeALVA STANWOOD ALEXANDER, A.M. Member of Congress, Formerly United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York — Vol. I 1774-1832
  5. 5.PREFACE
  6. 6.CONTENTS — VOL. I
  7. 7.A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
  8. 8.CHAPTER I A COLONY BECOMES A STATE
  9. 9.CHAPTER II MAKING A STATE CONSTITUTION 1777
  10. 10.CHAPTER III GEORGE CLINTON ELECTED GOVERNOR 1777
  11. 11.CHAPTER IV CLINTON AND HAMILTON 1777-1789
  12. 12.CHAPTER V CLINTON’S FOURTH TERM 1789-1792
  13. 13.CHAPTER VI GEORGE CLINTON DEFEATS JOHN JAY 1792-1795
  14. 14.CHAPTER VII RECOGNITION OF EARNEST MEN 1795-1800
  15. 15.CHAPTER VIII OVERTHROW OF THE FEDERALISTS 1798-1800
  16. 16.CHAPTER IX MISTAKES OF HAMILTON AND BURR 1800
  17. 17.CHAPTER X JOHN JAY AND DeWITT CLINTON 1800
  18. 18.CHAPTER XI SPOILS AND BROILS OF VICTORY 1801-1803
  19. 19.CHAPTER XII DEFEAT OF BURR AND DEATH OF HAMILTON 1804
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIII THE CLINTONS AGAINST THE LIVINGSTONS 1804-1807
  21. 21.CHAPTER XIV DANIEL D. TOMPKINS AND DeWITT CLINTON 1807-1810
  22. 22.CHAPTER XV TOMPKINS DEFEATS JONAS PLATT 1810
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVI DeWITT CLINTON AND TAMMANY 1789-1811
  24. 24.CHAPTER XVII BANKS AND BRIBERY 1791-1812
  25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII CLINTON AND THE PRESIDENCY 1812
  26. 26.CHAPTER XIX QUARRELS AND RIVALRIES 1813
  27. 27.CHAPTER XX A GREAT WAR GOVERNOR 1812-1815
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXI CLINTON OVERTHROWN 1815
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXII CLINTON’S RISE TO POWER 1815-1817
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXIII BUCKTAIL AND CLINTONIAN 1817-1819
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXIV RE-ELECTION OF RUFUS KING 1819-1820
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXV TOMPKINS’ LAST CONTEST 1820
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVI THE ALBANY REGENCY 1820-1822
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXVII THE THIRD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 1821
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXVIII THE SECOND FALL OF CLINTON 1822
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXIX CLINTON AGAIN IN THE SADDLE 1823-1824
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXX VAN BUREN ENCOUNTERS WEED 1824
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXI CLINTON’S COALITION WITH VAN BUREN 1825-1828
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXII VAN BUREN ELECTED GOVERNOR 1828
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIII WILLIAM H. SEWARD AND THURLOW WEED 1830
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXIV VAN BUREN’S ENEMIES MAKE HIM VICE PRESIDENT 1829-1832
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXV FORMATION OF THE WHIG PARTY 1831-1834
  43. 43.FOOTNOTES TO VOLUME I — A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
  44. 44.BY DeALVA STANWOOD ALEXANDER, A.M. Member of Congress, Formerly United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York — Vol. II 1833-1861
  45. 45.CONTENTS — VOL. II
  46. 46.A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
  47. 47.CHAPTER I VAN BUREN AND ABOLITION 1833-1837
  48. 48.CHAPTER II SEWARD ELECTED GOVERNOR 1836-1838
  49. 49.CHAPTER III THE DEFEAT OF VAN BUREN FOR PRESIDENT 1840
  50. 50.CHAPTER IV HUMILIATION OF THE WHIGS 1841-1842
  51. 51.CHAPTER V DEMOCRATS DIVIDE INTO FACTIONS 1842-1844
  52. 52.CHAPTER VI VAN BUREN DEFEATED AT BALTIMORE 1844
  53. 53.CHAPTER VII SILAS WRIGHT AND MILLARD FILLMORE 1844
  54. 54.CHAPTER VIII THE RISE OF JOHN YOUNG 1845-1846
  55. 55.CHAPTER IX THE FOURTH CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 1846
  56. 56.CHAPTER X DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SILAS WRIGHT 1846-1847
  57. 57.CHAPTER XI THE FREE-SOIL CAMPAIGN 1847-1848
  58. 58.CHAPTER XII SEWARD SPLITS THE WHIG PARTY 1849-1850
  59. 59.CHAPTER XIII THE WHIGS’ WATERLOO 1850-1852
  60. 60.CHAPTER XIV THE HARDS AND THE SOFTS 1853
  61. 61.CHAPTER XV A BREAKING-UP OF PARTY TIES 1854
  62. 62.CHAPTER XVI THE FORMATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 1854-5
  63. 63.CHAPTER XVII THE FIRST REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR 1856
  64. 64.CHAPTER XVIII THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT 1857-1858
  65. 65.CHAPTER XIX SEWARD’S BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY 1859-1860
  66. 66.CHAPTER XX DEAN RICHMOND’S LEADERSHIP AT CHARLESTON 1860
  67. 67.CHAPTER XXI SEWARD DEFEATED AT CHICAGO 1860
  68. 68.CHAPTER XXII NEW YORK’S CONTROL AT BALTIMORE 1860
  69. 69.CHAPTER XXIII RAYMOND, GREELEY, AND WEED 1860
  70. 70.CHAPTER XXIV THE FIGHT OF THE FUSIONISTS 1860
  71. 71.CHAPTER XXV GREELEY, WEED, AND SECESSION 1860-1861
  72. 72.CHAPTER XXVI SEYMOUR AND THE PEACE DEMOCRATS 1860-1861
  73. 73.CHAPTER XXVII WEED’S REVENGE UPON GREELEY 1861
  74. 74.CHAPTER XXVIII LINCOLN, SEWARD, AND THE UNION 1860-1861
  75. 75.CHAPTER XXIX THE WEED MACHINE CRIPPLED 1861
  76. 76.FOOTNOTES TO VOLUME II — A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
  77. 77.BY DeALVA STANWOOD ALEXANDER, A.M., LL.D. Member of Congress, Formerly United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York — Vol. III 1861-1882
  78. 78.CONTENTS — VOL. III
  79. 79.A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
  80. 80.CHAPTER I THE UPRISING OF THE NORTH 1861
  81. 81.1861
  82. 82.1862
  83. 83.1863
  84. 84.1863
  85. 85.1863
  86. 86.1864
  87. 87.1864
  88. 88.1864
  89. 89.1865
  90. 90.1866
  91. 91.1866
  92. 92.1867
  93. 93.1868
  94. 94.1868
  95. 95.1869
  96. 96.1869-70
  97. 97.1870
  98. 98.1870
  99. 99.1871
  100. 100.1871
  101. 101.1872
  102. 102.1872
  103. 103.1873-4
  104. 104.1875
  105. 105.1876
  106. 106.1876
  107. 107.1877
  108. 108.1877
  109. 109.1878
  110. 110.1878-9
  111. 111.1879
  112. 112.1880
  113. 113.1880
  114. 114.1881
  115. 115.1881-2
  116. 116.A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK — (1774-1861) — R.M. JOHNSTON’S LEADING AMERICAN SOLDIERS — AS THE HAGUE ORDAINS — W.F. JOHNSON’S FOUR CENTURIES OF THE PANAMA CANAL — JOHN L. GIVENS’ MAKING A NEWSPAPER — THE OPEN ROAD THE FRIENDLY TOWN
  117. 117.American Public Problems — EDITED BY — RALPH CURTIS RINGWALT — IMMIGRATION: And Its Effects Upon the United States — THE ELECTION OF SENATORS
  118. 118.TWO BOOKS ON VITAL QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHTFUL AMERICANS — THE NEGRO AND THE NATION — By GEORGE S. MERRIAM — STUDIES IN AMERICAN TRADE-UNIONISM — J.H. HOLLANDER and G.E. BARNETT (Editors)
  119. 119.AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY — OUR PHILIPPINE PROBLEM — By Prof. HENRY PARKER WILLIS — AMERICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC — By WOLF von SCHIERBRAND Author of “Germany of To-day” — BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS By W.A. Locy. — CANADIAN TYPES OF THE OLD RÉGIME By C.W. Colby. — THE BUILDERS OF UNITED ITALY By R.S. Holland. — THE ITALIANS OF TO-DAY By René Bazin. — DARWINISM TO-DAY By V.L. Kellogg.
  120. 120.FOOTNOTES TO VOLUME III — A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
  121. 121.BY DeALVA STANWOOD ALEXANDER, A.M., LL.D. Member of Congress, Formerly United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York
  122. 122.INDEX TO VOLUMES I-III

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