Research Catalog

Title

The struggle over ratification, 1846-1847 / ed. by Milo M. Quaife.

Publication

Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1920.

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Additional Authors

Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959

Description

716 p. : ports.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Publications of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin : Collections ; v. 28
• Constitutional series ; v. 3
• State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Publications : Constitutional series ; v. 3.

Subject

• Wisconsin. Constitutional convention, 1846
• Wisconsin
• To 1848
• Constitutions > Wisconsin
• Wisconsin > Sources. > To 1848

Genre/Form

• Constitution
• History
• Sources

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Letters from the convention. Letters to the Racine Advocate -- Letters to the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette -- Letters to the Platteville Independent American. Selections from the Madison Wisconsin Democrat. The convention -- Popular election of judges -- The exemption -- Capital punishment -- German opposition to the suffrage article -- The judiciary -- Arguments against capital punishment -- The exemption article -- Strictures upon Marshall M. Strong. Selections from the Madison Wisconsin Argus. The last prayer -- Be sure you're right -- then go ahead -- The suffrage article -- Advancing backwards -- The bank article -- Clerks of courts and registers of deeds -- Organization of the legislature. Selections from the Madison Express. Public printing -- party drill -- A Whig view of the convention -- Crawfishing -- Error corrected -- The dreadful New York Negroes -- Disqualification of ministers -- Proceedings of the convention -- Referendum on the constitution -- The bank article -- The "harmonious" democracy -- The rights of married women -- exemption of property from forced sale -- The end of the convention. Selections from the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette. A Daniel come to judgment -- Banks and Banking -- The question of banking -- Mordecai at the King's gate -- Ryan on banking -- The first step -- The convention criticized -- An unfounded imputation -- Misdeeds of the convention -- Criticism of the convention -- A visit to the convention -- A good day's work -- The single district system rejected -- The exemption article -- Sunday caucus. Selections from the Milwaukee Courier. Views of a "Democrat" -- The convention -- banks and banking -- Arguments against bank currency -- Banks and banking -- Resolutions of democratic members of the convention. Selections from the Racine Advocate. The convention -- Banking -- Faults of the convention -- Restrictions on the legislature -- Banks. Selections from the Lancaster Wisconsin Herald. The convention -- What is to be done? -- Selections from the Prairieville American Freeman. The Suffrage article -- Rights of clergymen -- The Suffrage article and the Bill of Rights. Rejection of the Constitution: Debate in Territorial legislation. Editorial explanation. Report of select committee on bill for a new convention. Debate in council, February 5-6, 1847. Council debate, February 5 -- Speech of Marshall M. Strong, February 5, 1847 -- Remarks of Mr. Clark, February 6, 1847 -- Remarks of Mr. Palmer, February 6, 1847 -- Remarks of Mr. Singer, February 6, 1847 -- Remarks of Mr. Collins, February 6, 1847. Debate in Assembly, February 9, 1847. Selections from the Madison Wisconsin Argus. The Constitution commended -- Exclusive orders -- Sixth section of the bank article -- The sixth section: Objection no. 1 -- The sixth section: Objection no. 2 -- Reasons for supporting the Constitution -- Meeting of the Democratic members of the legislature -- The resolutions -- What is the leading objection to the Constitution? -- To the candid and reflecting -- The Green Bay Advocate answered -- Anticonnstitutioin rally at Milwaukee -- The sixth section: Objections nos. 3,4,5 and 6 -- The sixth section: Objections no. 7 -- Right of foreigners to hold and transmit property -- The assumption -- The issue -- The reason assigned -- The constitution -- on schools -- The result -- The course of the Democrat -- The position of J. A. Noonan. Selections from the Madison Wisconsin Democrat. Opposition to the constitution -- Prospects of the constitution -- The exemption -- The personnel of the opponents -- "Agricola's" view on the rights of married women -- Sufrage and the elective franchise -- Resolutions in support of the constitution -- 'Agricola's" views exemption -- A meeting of the opponents -- Times that try men's souls -- Are they honest? -- "Agricola's" views on the judiciary -- Views of "home" on exemption -- The bank article -- An argument for homestead exemption. Selections from the Madison Express. Massachusetts' provision for the rights of married women -- A new convention -- A hostile report of a p

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^^^22001544^

OCLC

• 3063858
• SCSB-10047167

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library