INDEX
| Adams, Charles Francis, 151 | |
| Alberti, George, 185-6, 194 | |
| Allegheny county, 107, 154 | |
| Allison, J. S., 148, 152 | |
| American party: see Know Nothings | |
| Anthracite furnaces, 100 | |
| Anti-Masonic party, organized, 11; refuse to cooperate with the National Republicans, 12; maintain independent organization, 16; reject fusion with the Whigs, 18; state convention, 1835-18-19; nominate Harrison for presidency, 1836, 29; oppose national convention, 29; policy in constitutional convention, 35- 41; control coalition with the Whigs, 20, 29, 41, 56, 237; control broken, 54-55; Buckshot War, 49-55; state convention, 1838, 57-58; activity in Whig national convention, 1839, 60- 61; address in 1840, 63-64; resent sneers of Whigs, 68-69; attempts to revive party, 1843, 90-94; persistency of party sentiment, 94, and note | |
| Bailey and Brothers, 231 | |
| Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 131-132 | |
| Bank Act of 1836, 23-28; of 1840, 62-63; of 1841, 69-72; of 1842, 76-77 | |
| Bank of Pennsylvania, 76 | |
| Bank officials, politics of, 38 | |
| Bank of the United States, Jackson's opposition to, 13; question of, 1834, 15-18; obtains state charter, 23-26; suspends specie payment, 62, 69' provision for resuscitation, 70; liquidation, 72; officials accused of bribery, 74; Handy Bribery Investigation, 77-79; effect of failure of, on Whig party, 79 | |
| Banks, John, 69, 74 | |
| Banks, Nathaniel P., 227 | |
| Barker, Mayor of Pittsburgh, 176n., 194 | |
| Bedini, Cardinal, 208-9 | |
| Beecher, Henry Ward, 229 | |
| Berks county, 139, 245 | |
| Best, Valentine, 167 | |
| Biddle, Nicholas, 23, 70 | |
| Bigler, John180 | |
| Bigler, William, Democratic nominee for governor, 1851, 180; elected, 190-192; signs bill repealing Act of March 3, 1847, 193; pardons Alberti, 194; gubernatorial candidate, 1854, 210-11; defeated, 215 | |
| Binney, Horace, 31n., 243 | |
| Birney, James G., 111 | |
| Black, Jeremiah S., 215 | |
| Bonuses, paid by the banks, 25-27 | |
| Brackenridge, H. M., 202 | |
| Brewster, Benjamin H., 225n. "Borers", activity of, in bank bribery, 77-79 | |
| Brodhead, Daniel M., 77-79 | |
| Brodhead, Richard, 177 | |
| Broom, Jacob, 198, 215 | |
| Brown, David Paul, 31n. | |
| Buchanan, James, "Ten Cent Jimmie", 64; withdraws as presidential candidate, 1843, 92; activity in campaign of 1844, 103; recommended for secretaryship of state by the electoral college, 114-5; tariff of 1846, 121; a former Federalist, 137n.; on slavery in new territory, 139; opposition to leadership by, 143, 194; endorsed for presidency, 1852, 194; not nominated, 197; |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Whig Party in Pennsylvania.
Volume: 1.
Contributors: Henry R. Mueller - Author.
Publisher: Columbia University.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1922.
Page number: 265.
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