Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index.
Preface; 1. The Ancient Standard of Federalism; 2. Encounter With a Connecticut Nightingale; 3. The Little Conqueror; 4. On, Stanly, On!; 5. The War With Captain Tyler; 6. Apple of Discord; 7. A Most Extraordinary Course; 8. Stanly and the Party Divided; 9. In the Land of Gold; 10. Mission of Love; 11. A Barren Sceptre; 12. An Inveterate Old-Line Whig; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Raised under the "Ancient Standard of Federalism," Edward Stanly was a southern nationalist during a time of popular nullification and secession doctrines. Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel Conqueror is an unprecedented biography of Stanly's life, and recounts his fiery and controversial emergence in the Whig Party of North Carolina in the 1930s, his role as a champion of Whiggery in the United States House of Representatives 1837-1843 and 1849-1853, his candidacy for governor of California in 1857, his appointment by President Abraham Lincoln as a military governor of N.
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