...Elisha P. Douglass The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution . By Colbourn H. Trevor . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1965...

...R. H. Woody Seargent S. Prentiss: Whig Orator of the Old South . By Dickey Dallas C. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1945 . Pp. ix , 422 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Book Reviews 253 limned in an approving manner. Few critics...

...Donald E. Ginter The Regency Crisis and the Whigs, 1788-9 . By Derry John W. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1963 . Pp. viii , 244 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 595 Unfortunately, the promise of the subject is not fulfilled...

... of the Whig party notwith­ standing.2 Having to do essentially with periodization, persistent Mr. Mering is professor of history at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Whig Party in Missouri, published by the University of Missouri Press in 1967, and he is currently engaged in a study...

... the Democratic party into the Whig party and the beginning of those reverse currents which were to carry important elements back into the Democratic party. The Whig party had been building rapidly since the defeat of Clay in 1832. By 1837 that party was composed of three main elements: the old National...

... years later he aligned himself with the new Whig party. He left the former party about the time that President Jackson made it definitely known that he was unalterably opposed to the recharter of the Bank of the United States. Badger clearly indicated in 1841 that he was decidedly in favor of a national...

... also with 1830. Brown and Mangum were as different as two men could be, the one a simple, plain democrat and pupil of Macon; the other a thoroughly cultured, able whig, if the term may be used at this point, an admirer of Clay and a believer in lavish national expense for public improvements. When...

... also with 1830. Brown and Mangum were as different as two men could be, the one a simple, plain democrat and pupil of Macon; the other a thoroughly cultured, able whig, if the term may be used at this point, an admirer of Clay and a believer in lavish national expense for public improvements. When...

... tures. The nub of the controversy between the two is Walcott s doubt that men in the time who called themselves Whigs or Tories were ever organized into parties that actively opposed each other. Plumb contends that they were so organized despite the fact that Mr. Laprade, author of Public Opinion...

...William J. McGill Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Herbert Butterfield and the Idea of Liberty William J. McGill Herbert Butterfield is perhaps best known for his incisive critique of the Whig interpretation of history, in which he details the pitfalls of that mode of viewing...

... to the nationalistic, antislavery, capitalistic North. This myth of a monolithic South, as Charles G. Sellers, Jr., calls it, is grossly misleading.2 Sellers and others have recently reminded us that from the 183O s until well into the 185O s Southern voters were split almost evenly between the Whig and Democratic...

... to and the support of Texas annexation and the Mexican War among Whigs and Democrats of the Old Northwest. Norman E. Tutorow s thesis is that the war was not a conspiracy or what many historians have called Mr. Polk s War, but that basically good men on both sides supported and opposed it for a combination...

..., and for other purposes. It was the avowed opinion of the Whig element in the caucus perhaps of the Whig party in the South just at this time that Mr. Calhoun was bent upon the destruction of the Union, and an independent confederacy. In fact, the only conclusion which could be drawn from the Address...

... explanation of why so small a sum was offered for the discovery of the author of The Publick Spirit of the Whigs passes without remark. Actually, the Ministry would not have named a higher reward for anyone but the Pretender, and the great sum offered for Swift was meant to silence inquiry, not to encourage...

... Book Reviews 281 The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution. By H. Trevor Colboum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1965. Pp. viii, 247. $7.50...

... of the ignorant foreign vote. Politicians great and small, who once labored under the old Whig banner, and now beheld that party in ruins, gladly cast their lot with what seemed to be the party of the future. Patriots who really believed American institutions were threatened by what they called the insidious...

... of their meetings were led by ultra-Tories who, although angry at the Duke of Wellington, were no friends of reform. Nevertheless the subject was taken up by a number of county meetings over the antireformers objections. In Essex, Hamp­ shire, Hertfordshire, and Worcestershire the agriculturalists ac­ cepted Whig...

... a southern politics where Whigs and Democrats practiced sectional one-upmanship. Throughout the life of the sec­ ond American party system, Cooper writes, Whigs and Democrats strove to best each other as protector of slavery and champions of the South (p. xi). This survey thus challenges interpretations...

... The Coming of the Revolution, 1763-1775 (New York, 1954). 236 The South Atlantic Quarterly vestigated social and economic divisions within the colonies in an effort to discover what was revolutionary about the Revolution.3 Both schools provided useful correctives to earlier whig interpreta­ tions...

... prohibition laws were continually blocked by foreign-born voters. Politically, many native Americans were resentful at the power wielded by the foreign-born citizens at the polls and at the large number of public offices which they filled. Whigs in particular were inflamed at the practice of Democratic ward...