Whig Party

Prof. GUELZO: The Whig Party was the party of nationalism.

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Of these the Whig Party was the largest, but from 1849 to 1853 it was not able to command a majority vote in the

Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 George S. Boutwell 1861

Abolitionists and humanitarians had opposed the Florida War on moral grounds, and the rest of the Whig Party exploited the unpopular conflict as a political foil.

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Harrison was derided by opponents as a "log cabin and hard cider" man, but the Whig Party happily adopted the insult, portraying their candidate as a man of the people.

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But note that the demise of the Whig Party did not lead to a several-party system.

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The country and the Whig Party were bitterly divided in those years over whether and how to stop the spread of slavery.

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In 1840, when Democratic President Martin Van Buren ran for re-election against Whig Party candidate William Henry Harrison, Van Buren was accused of being an aristocrat, living the high life in the White House, eating off golden plates, while the country suffered through a terrible depression.

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An amiable and respected but not widely known ex-congressman and comptroller of New York state, he was selected in 1848 as the Whig Party's ticket-balancer for its presidential candidate, Mexican War hero and Louisiana plantation owner Zachary Taylor.

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Abolitionists and humanitarians had opposed the Florida War on moral grounds, and the rest of the Whig Party exploited the unpopular conflict as a political foil.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

The Whig Party was a predecessor to the Republican Party in the first half of the 19th century.

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