Millard Fillmore; biography of a President
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Buffalo :
Published for the Buffalo Historical Society by H. Stewart,
1959
Buffalo, 1959 Buffalo, 1959 Buffalo : 1959 |
| Edition: | [lst ed.] |
| Series: | Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society ;
v. 40. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society ; v. 40 Publications of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society ; v. 40 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. "If thee has an ambition for distinction..."
- 2. The Trojan horse.
- 3. Buffalonian.
- 4. A new departure.
- 5. Antimason into Whig.
- 6. Nascent rebellion.
- 7. At the altar of Mammon.
- 8. Nativism and defeat.
- 9. The comptrollership: marking time.
- 10. The road back to Washington.
- 11. "We could put up a cow..."
- 12. Toward the compromise of 1850.
- 13. President Fillmore wrecks the omnibus.
- 14. Warfare: the bolt of the "Silver Greys".
- 15. The great silence.
- 16. The lure of the East.
- 17. Fillmore obstructs Manifest Destiny.
- 18. Self-sacrifice: "The hopes of good men."
- 19. Webster and the Baltimore convention.
- 20. Retirement to grief.
- 21. National Whigs find a host.
- 22. Candidate of the know-nothings.
- 23. Spectator.
- 24. First citizen of Buffalo