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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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ough the resignation of a President ofthe United States, because he found him-self without a party, would give to our sys-tem a resemblance rather to that which has motives, until he had made sure of an ex-tremely important treaty witli Great Brit-ain, pending when the quarrel between thePresident and the Whigs became acute. 42 Pearson^s Magazine His resignation in the fall of 1843, AvlienTyler was already longing to be rid of himas an obstacle to an important piece ofcontemplated policy, was followed by theappointment of Abel P. L pshnr to the va-cancy. Upshur, however, was killed a fewmonths later in the sliocking accident onboard tlie United States man-of-war Presi- Buren party. Van Buren hoped for andexpected the nomination. He did not ex-pect, in the early part of Tylers adminis-tration, the rise of the great question thatwas to defeat his hopes. This very ques-tion, the annexation of Texas, Tyler him-self and Calhoun were preparing. VanBuren, on a visit to the South in 1842, had
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Mr. Van Buren was Secretary of State under President Jackson from .829-31,Vice-President during Jacksons second term, and President from 18^7-41,being the eighth of our Presidents (lent, and Calhoun, in April, 1844, becameTylers Secretary of State. Van Buren had gone out of office inMarch, 1841, after the mad campaign ofhurrah which had made Harrison Presi-dent, generally recognized as the probableDemocratic candidate in 1844. Benton, in-deed, had already openly declared for hisrenomination, and for a time the Demo-cratic party was often spoken of as the Van been the guest of both Jackson and Clay,and it vrns shrewdly conjectured that thegreat leader of the Whigs, who was theprospective candidate of his party, and hisguest, who fully expected the nominationof the Democrats, discussed the questionof annexation, then beginning to attractattention, and agreed that it should be keptout of the coming campaign. Van Burenin February, 184.S, sought to conciliate the The First Dark H orsc 43 S

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