James K. Polks Goals Video
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Political cartoon predicting Polk's defeat by Clay Grand National Whig banner Former Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, effectively the leader of the Whig Party since its inception in , [82] was selected as the Whig presidential nominee at the party's convention in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 1, As such, Whigs were content to restrict their campaign platform to less divisive issues such as internal improvements and national finance. An advocate of the colonization of emancipated slaves, he was acceptable to southern Whigs as an opponent of the abolitionists. Polk, released a position statement, the so-called Alabama Letter. In it, he counseled his Whig constituency to regard Texas annexation and statehood as merely a short phase in the decline of slavery in the United States, rather than a long term advance for the Slave Power. He would move back to his original orientation in September Clay's commitment brought Southern Whigs under extreme pressure in their home states and congressional districts, threatening to tarnish their credentials as supporters of slavery. They also attacked former House Speaker Polk as nobody who deep down was a dangerous Loco Foco radical…With greater success, the Whigs linked up with resurgent nativist anti-Catholic movement strongest in New York and Pennsylvania, and planted stories that as president, Clay would tighten up immigration and naturalization laws. Too late, Clay tried to distance himself from the nativists. One notorious handbill, widely reprinted, by an abolitionist minister Abel Brown , denounced Clay as a "Man Stealer, Slaveholder, and Murdurer," and accused him of "Selling Jesus Christ! James K. Polks Goals.Image: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Tiffany Momon and Victoria Hensley of the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive, a nationally-celebrated project changing the face of decorative arts and material culture scholarship today. The presenters will introduce the Tennessee phase of the project, which officially launches this Spring. Get Free Tickets Now Dr. Her work focuses on Gkals African American placemaking throughout the southeast, documenting cemeteries, churches, schools, and lodges.
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