Contents:
Prologue to Whiggery / John Quincy Adams --
The promise of industrialization / Edward Everett --
Economic nationalism / Henry Clay --
Economic centralization in a democracy / George Tucker --
The origins of political authority / Daniel Webster --
The limits of political authority / William Henry Harrison --
The Whig interpretation of history / John Pendleton Kennedy --
Whig image-making / Calvin Colton --
The family, the nation, and the church / Daniel D. Barnard --
The educated person in America / Nicholas Biddle --
Religious ideology and political freedom / Lyman Beecher --
Education as a means of social control / Horace Mann --
Whig myth-making / Rufus Choate --
Whig philanthropy / Joseph Tuckerman --
The rights of the Indians / Theodore Frelinghuysen --
An unjust war / Thomas Corwin --
Conscience Whiggery / Charles Sumner --
The higher law / William H. Seward --
The mysic chords of union / Abraham Lincoln.