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Southerners and Tariffs - Ari Sclar
“If most Southerners did not support the tariff of 1816 through a desire to have manufacturing, why then did they vote for it? The true...


Politics of the Louisiana Purchase - Ari Sclar
Of the same nature, though of less practicable aspect, is another Utopian idea, which I presume to suggest to the genuine friends of...


Kentucky Resolution - Ari Sclar
Resolved, That a committee of conference and correspondence be appointed, who shall have in charge to communicate the preceding...


Tecumseh's Appeal - Ari Sclar
“The annihilation of our race is at hand unless we unite in one common cause against the common foe…Our broad domains are fast escaping...


Joyce Appleby and the Federalists - Ari Sclar
Had the Federalists passed on their power to like-minded men in 1800, the course of economic development in the United States would have...


John Steele Gordon and Hamilton's Banking system
Unfortunately Thomas Jefferson was a better politician than Hamilton and a far better hater. The success of the Bank of the United...


Richard Hofstadter and the Founding Fathers
"[the Founders] did not believe in political parties as such, scorned those that they were conscious of as historical models, had a keen...
Friends and Citizens, 1796
In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the...


George Washington and War, 1778
“The necessity of putting the Army upon a respectable footing, both as to numbers and constitution, is now becoming more essential than...


To the Honourable Councel and House of Representatives in General Court for the State of Massachuset
The petition of several poor Negroes…we being chiefly of the African Extract and by Reason of Long Bondage and hard Slavery we have been...
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