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.