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We are not enemies, but freinds . We must not be enemies. Though passion may have straind , it must not break our bonds of affection. The my...

Charles W. Calhoun reports that partisans of Maine Republican James G. Blaine , a presidential hopeful for most of 1870s and '80s (he w...

Indiana Republican Oliver P. Morton could wave the bloody shirt with the best of them. In his enjoyable and (for me) informative By One V...

Two good quotes from Rutherford B. Hayes : On Salmon P. Chase : Chase possessed noble gifts of intellect, great culture, and a noble presenc...

I am reading Michael F. Holt's book on the 1876 election, By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 . This is a period I ...

The Senate received the House bill to amend the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 on Monday February 2, 1818 . The Senate accepted a few minor ame...

I'm interrupting my review of the efforts in 1817-1818 to amend the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 to point out that there is apparently nex...

The House of Representatives resumed debate on the Bill to amend to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 the next day, Friday January 30, 1818 . ...

On Thursday January 29, 1818 , the House of Representatives took up the Bill of the Committee headed by Rep. James Pindall of Virginia to ...

Before turning back to the legislative history of the December 1817 Bill To amend an act, entitled "An act respecting fugitives from ju...

Although I have catalogued a number of incentives built in to the December 1817 Bill To amend an act, entitled "An act respecting fugit...

In my last post concerning a Bill To amend an act, entitled "An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the se...

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a pretty bare-bones affair. The central provision – one brief section – outlined a scheme by which mast...

In his discussion of the Fugitive Slave Clause, referenced in my last post, Earl M. Maltz emphasizes the southern desire for greater involv...

In his book Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery , Earl M. Maltz makes an interesting point about the Supreme Court’s decision in Prigg v....

In the warm afterglow of Millard's 210th birthday celebration, here is an acrostic extolling the virtues of our thirteenth president , p...

Our thirteenth president, Millard Fillmore , was born January 7, 1800, two hundred ten years ago today. I have written a number of posts ov...

If you do a search for Winfield Scott at the Library of Congress site , you will come across a number of illustrations alluding to Scott’s ...

James K. Polk's diary entry for Wednesday December 23, 1846 describes a curious conversation that the president held with David Wilmot...

In my recent post discussing President James K. Polk's offer to nominate James Buchanan to the Supreme Court in 1846, I inferred that...