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The life of John Randolph of Roanoke / by Hugh A. Garland.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1850 Garland
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garland, Hugh A., 1805-1854.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Randolph, John, 1773-1833.
- Randolph, John.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. : ports. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton, 1850.
- Contents:
- Vol I. Birthplace
- Matoax-Genealogy
- Childhood
- Family circle
- Flight from Matoax
- At school
- The constitution in its Chrysalis state
- George Mason
- Early political associations
- Thomas Jefferson
- Small beginnings-Edmund Burke-Thomas Paine
- Youthful companions
- Richard Randolph
- Visit to Charleston and Georgia
- At home
- Candidate for Congress-history of the times
- The fauchet letter
- Mr. Monroe-France-Mr. Adams elected president
- The X. Y. Z. business
- Patrick Henry
- March count-The rising and the setting sun
- France and the administration
- Scence in the play-house-standing army
- Make to yourself an idol, and, in spite of the decalogue, worship it
- The course of true love never did run smooth
- Presidental election, 1800-1-midnight judges
- The seventh and eight congresses-chairman of the committee of ways and means-The working period-the yazoo business
- Friendship
- Ninth congress-foreign relations-difficulties with France and Spain
- Difficulties with Great Britain
- Closing scene
- Aaron Burr
- Embargo-The illiad of all our woes
- Gunboats
- James Madison-presidental election
- War with England
- Clay-Calhoun
- Vol II. Roanoake retirement
- Ancestral pride-St.George-madness
- Military campaign
- New England
- Religion-1815
- Political reflections-Congress-Bank Charter
- Religion-home-solitude
- "Dying, sir-dying"
- Conversion
- Idiosyncracies
- Congree-political parties
- Missouri question
- Compromise Bill smuggled through home
- "I now go for blood"-madness
- Missouri Question-act of second
- "Be not solitary; be not idle"-His will-slaves
- Log-book and letters
- The apportionment bill
- Pinckney, Marshall, Tazewell-depature for Europe
- The voyage
- Incidnets in England
- Eighteenth congress-Consolidation is the order of the day-"Speak a cheering word to the Greeks"
- Internal Improvements
- Supreme court-dull dinner-Huddlesford's oak
- Tariff-prophecy-Lewis Mclean
- Second voyage to Europe
- Presidential election
- "Such constituents as man never had before, and never will again"
- The adams administration
- The Panama mission-Blifil and black George
- Duel with Henry Clay
- Negro slavery
- Letters from abroad
- Ejection from the senate
- Election to the house of reprensentatives
- Leader of the opposition-A wise and masterly inactivity
- Letters from Roanoke
- Presidential election-retirement from congress
- Elected to the convention
- The Virginia convention-every change is not reform
- Mission to Russia
- Opium eater
- The consummation
- "I have been sick all my life"-Death.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 26670
- OCLC:
- 1965434
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