Download or read book John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule 1835 1850 written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War. Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all petitions against slavery, effectively forbidding Congress from addressing the antislavery issue until it was rescinded in late 1844. In the Senate, a similar rule lasted until 1850. Strongly supported by all southern and some northern Democratic congressmen, the gag rule became a proxy defense of slavery’s morality and economic value in the face of growing pro-abolition sentiment. In John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, Peter Charles Hoffer transports readers to Washington, DC, in the period before the Civil War to contextualize the heated debates surrounding the rule. At first, Hoffer explains, only a few members of Congress objected to the rule. These antislavery representatives argued strongly for the reception and reading of incoming abolitionist petitions. When they encountered an almost uniformly hostile audience, however, John Quincy Adams took a different tack. He saw the effort to gag the petitioners as a violation of their constitutional rights. Adams’s campaign to lift the gag rule, joined each year by more and more northern members of Congress, revealed how the slavery issue promoted a virulent sectionalism and ultimately played a part in southern secession and the Civil War. A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
Download or read book John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule 1835 1850 written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
Download or read book John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule written by Stephen J. Juergens and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Quincy Adams Versus Gag rule written by John Washington Swails and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writings of John Quincy Adams 1796 1801 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.
Download or read book John Quincy Adams to the Editor of the Quincy Patriot Reporting to His Constituents Regarding the Gag Rule the Abolition of Slavery the Admission of Texas and the Treaty of New Echota 21 September 1838 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as Member of Congress. A report to his constituents regarding petitions made concerning the right to petition and its suppression through the Gag Rule, abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia and the slave trade in the US, his opposition to the admission of Texas, a condemnation of the fraudulent Treaty of New Echota which removed the Cherokee Indians and a bill for suppressing duelling between representatives. Pages are stained.
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Debbie Levy and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and accomplishments of the sixth president of the United States, discussing his policies, anti-slavery view, and life after his presidency.
Download or read book Speech of John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts Upon the Right of the People Men and Women to Petition on the Freedom of Speech and Debate in the House of Representatives of the United States on the Resolutions of Seven State Legislatures and the Petitions of More Than One Hundred Thousand Petitioners Relating to the Annexation of Texas to this Union written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence of John Quincy Adams 1811 1814 written by John Quincy Adams and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Substance of the Speech of John Quincy Adams written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writings of John Quincy Adams written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Address of John Quincy Adams to His Constituents of the Twelfth Congressional District at Braintree September 17th 1842 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Jane C. Walker and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life of the sixth president of the United States, including his childhood, marriage, and career as a debater, writer, and politician.
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by John Torrey Morse (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Argumentation of John Quincy Adams on the Abolitionists Rights of Petition and Free Speech 1835 1844 written by Richard Robert Ranta and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Quincy Adams Diaries Vol 2 1821 1848 LOA 294 written by John Quincy Adams and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively mind. Now, for the 250th anniversary of Adams's birth, Library of America and historian David Waldstreicher present a two-volume reader's edition of diary selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring personal and revealing passages suppressed in earlier editions. Volume 2 opens with Adams serving as Secretary of State, amid political maneuverings within and outside James Monroe's cabinet to become his successor, a process that culminates in Adams's election to the presidency by the House of Representatives after the deadlocked four-way contest of 1824. Even as Adams takes the oath of office, rivals Henry Clay, his Secretary of State, John C. Calhoun, his vice president, and an embittered Andrew Jackson, eye the election of 1828. The diary records in candid detail his frustration as his far-sighted agenda for national improvement founders on the rocks of internecine political factionalism, conflict that results in his becoming only the second president, with his father, to fail to secure reelection. After a short-lived retirement, Adams returns to public service as a Congressman from Massachusetts, and for the last seventeen years of his life he leads efforts to resist the extension of slavery and to end the notorious "gag rule" that stifles debate on the issue in Congress. In 1841 he further burnishes his reputation as a scourge of the Slave Power by successfully defending African mutineers of the slave ship Amistad before the Supreme Court. The diary achieves perhaps its greatest force in its prescient anticipation of the Civil War and Emancipation, an “object,” as Adams described it during the Missouri Crisis, “vast in its compass, awful in its prospects, sublime and beautiful in its issue.”
Download or read book Substance of the Speech of John Quincy Adams Together with a Part of the Debate in the House of Representatives of the United States upon the Bill to Ensure the more Faithful Execution of the Laws Relating to the Collection of Duties on Imports written by John Quincy Adams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
