Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States

· 1862

Gratifying Period in our History embraced by Administrations of Jefferson and Madison--The Caucus System and its Abandonment--The System useful to the Republican or Democratic Party, but not so to the Federalists--Questions proposed--Difficulties of the Subject--Two great Parties, under changing Names, have always divided the Country--Few and imperfect Attempts heretofore made to trace the Origin and Principles of those Parties--This the first Attempt with that object on the Republican or Democratic Side--The Sources of Differences in Opinion and Feeling which gave rise to our Political Divisions, and _punctum temporis_ of their Rise--Principles established by the English Revolution of 1688-…

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