BY THE WHIG MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
1841 · [Washington
by Whig Party
[Washington, 1841. 7, [1 blank] pp. Caption title [as issued]. Folded folio sheet, untrimmed and uncut. Dampstained. Good to Good+.
Whig hopes crashed when their new President, William Henry Harrison, died soon after his inauguration. His Vice President, the Virginian John Tyler, was a shaky Whig at best.
"The People desired the early adoption of the policy which had been promised them by the Whig party." That policy emphasized restraints on Executive powers bloated by excesses of Harrison's Democratic predecessors, Jackson and Van Buren; (truncated)
Whig hopes crashed when their new President, William Henry Harrison, died soon after his inauguration. His Vice President, the Virginian John Tyler, was a shaky Whig at best.
"The People desired the early adoption of the policy which had been promised them by the Whig party." That policy emphasized restraints on Executive powers bloated by excesses of Harrison's Democratic predecessors, Jackson and Van Buren; (truncated)