Rancorous enmities and blind partialities : factions and parties in Georgia, 1807-1845 / George R. Lamplugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamplugh, George R., 1944- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political parties--Georgia--History--19th century.

Political parties.

History.

Georgia--Politics and government--1775-1865.

Georgia.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiii, 434 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Inc., [2015]

Summary:

Political developments in Georgia have always been baffling to those who did not live there. This work picks up the story of the evolution of Georgia political parties where the author left it in his first book, Politics on the Periphery: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806 (1986), carrying the story through 1845, by which date parties in Georgia actually mirrored those at the national level. It is a complicated story, involving, among other things, the legacy of the Yazoo Land Fraud; the development of political parties on the national level; and, especially, the presence of the Creek and Cherokee tribes in Georgia during a period when white Georgians were bent on expanding the culture of cotton. It is an unlovely story, but, by the mid-1840s, parties in Georgia finally resembled those in other parts of the nation, though, if one looked closely at their principles, questions remained. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 New Leaders and an Old Issue: Yazoo, Commerce, and War, 1806-1812 1

2 War, Peace, and Congressional Compensation, 1812-1817 31

3 John Clark's Revenge, 1817-1826 57

4 Clark v. Troup, 1819-1824 85

5 Troup and the Treaty, 1825-1828 115

6 Nurturing Nullification, 1829-1830 155

7 To Nullify or Not to Nullify, 1831-1832 183

8 Partisan Fury and Political Reorganization, 1833-1835 213

9 State Rights v. Union, 1835-1837 251

10 Proto-Whigs and Crypto-Democrats, 1838-1840 285

11 Names-and Principles-in Flux, 1841-1843 325

12 Whigs and Democrats, 1843-1845 365.

Notes:

Include bibliographical references (pages 413-428) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0761865861

9780761865865

OCLC:

907272001

Publisher Number:

99963643507