Correspondence of James K. Polk: 1817-1832Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1969 - 657 sidor Based in the History Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the James K. Polk Project sought to locate all extant letters by or to the United States's eleventh president (1845-49) and to publish an annotated edition of selected letters in print and online. Students, scholars, and anyone interested in U.S. history can use these resources to learn about one of the most consequential presidents and about a key period in the country's development. Since beginning its work in 1958, the Polk project has published fourteen volumes of the Correspondence of James K. Polk. All are held by numerous libraries and hardcover editions are available for purchase through the University of Tennessee Press. They also are available online as open access titles. In 2019 the project completed work on the fourteenth and final volume, which covers the last year of Polk's presidency and his brief retirement. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk's correspondence shifted from those issues relating to the formation of his administration and distribution of part patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas, preparation for its defense, restoration of diplomatic relations with Mexico, and termination of joint occupancy of the Oregon Country. For the most part the incoming letters tended to urge rather more militancy on the Texas and Oregon questions than Polk would adopt, and notions of national destiny registered a singular theme of buoyant confidence in taking on both Mexico and Great Britain if military action should be required. President Polk and Secretary of State James Buchanan succeeded in both using and controlling the surge of nationalism that heightened expectations for expansion westward. Polk and Buchanan agreed on the importance of reestablishing diplomatic relations with Mexico, but the President chose to take a personal hand in managing the selection and instruction of John Slidell, whose departure for Vera Cruz would not be made public until he had arrived in Mexico. Polk wanted to give the fledgling Mexican administration of Jose Joaquin Herrera a chance to compose Mexico's differences with Washington free of contrary pressures from Great Britain and France; and he fully understood the price that Herrara might pay for a peaceful settlement of the Texas question. If Mexico required more than $6 million for the purchase of their two most northern provinces, as provided in his instructions, Slidell might agree to any reasonable additional sum. Slidell's mission probably never had much chance of success, for without control of his military the Herrara administration could neither give up its claim to Texas nor overcome British opposition to the sale of New Mexico and Upper California. Within but a few days of Slidell's arrival in the Mexican capital, Mariano Paredes y Argilla organized a military coup, put the Herrera government to flight, and on January 2, 1846, declared himself interim of president of Mexico. Polk left on the table his predecessor's initiative to divide the Oregon Country at the 49th parallel with all of Vancouver Island going to the British. The summary rejection of that offer by the British minister to Washington, Richard Packenham, so angered Polk that on August 30th he formally withdrew all prior offers to settle the dispute. The British foreign secretary, Lord Aberdeen, disavowed and assured the U.S. minister to Britain, Louis McLane, that no ultimatum had been sanctioned by his government. Buchanan tried in vain to soften Polk's decision to initiate further negotiations, but he had determined to give the required one year advance notice prior to abrogating the treaty of joint occupancy. Accordingly, in his First Annual Message to Congress Polk asked for a joint resolution terminating Oregon agreements with Great Britain. Polk received high praise for his Message and its hard line on Texas and Oregon. In addition to the texts, briefs, and annotations, the editors have calendared all of the documents for the last six months of 1845. Entries for unpublished letters include documents' dates, addresses, classifications, repositories, and precis. The Polk Project is sponsored by the University of Tennessee and assisted by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Nations Endowment for the Humantines, and the Tennessee Historical Commission. The Authors: Wayne Cutler is research professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He earned his bachelor's degree at Lamar University and his master's and doctor's degrees and University of Texas at Austin. Professor Cutler became director of the Polk Project in 1975, served as associate editor in the fourth volume of the correspondence, and headed the editorial team in the preparation of the series' fifth and subsequent volumes. He began his professional career in 1966 as an editorial associate of the Southwestern Historic Quarterly and moved to the assistant editorship of the Henry Clay Project in 1970. James L. Rogers II, the Project's associate editor from 1995 until 2002, received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and his doctor's degree from the University of Tennessee. He joined the Polk staff in 1991 as graduate research assistant and became associate editor following completion of the series' ninth volume. Read less |
Innehåll
From Denison Olmsted February 4 1837 52 | 4 |
From Carey A Harris January 5 1837 | 5 |
From John Blair January 9 1837 | 17 |
From Levin H Coe to James K Polk and Felix Grundy June | 22 |
From George Moore January 10 1837 | 27 |
From Denison Olmsted February 8 1837 | 58 |
From John Catron February 22 1837 | 71 |
From Cave Johnson April 1 1837 | 84 |
From Joel M Smith March 10 1838 | 390 |
From Jonas E Thomas March 21 1838 | 396 |
From William Patterson March 23 1838 | 401 |
From William R Rucker March 28 1838 | 407 |
From Alfred Flournoy April 2 1838 | 413 |
From Daniel Graham January 12 1837 28 | 417 |
From John W Childress April 9 1838 | 419 |
To Andrew Stevenson April 19 1838 | 425 |
From John Catron April 22 1837 | 96 |
From Samuel H Laughlin May 4 1837 | 110 |
From Samuel H Laughlin May 22 1837 | 123 |
From West H Humphreys June 7 1837 | 136 |
To William R Rucker June 15 1837 | 145 |
From John H Bills June 24 1837 | 158 |
From John O Bradford July 8 1837 | 172 |
From Daniel Graham July 19 1837 | 186 |
From James N Smith July 26 1837 | 193 |
From Robert B Reynolds August 9 1837 | 206 |
From John Field August 30 1837 | 219 |
From John Y Mason January 11 1837 27 | 227 |
From Jabez Jackson September 10 1837 | 233 |
From John O Bradford September 14 1837 | 240 |
From John Catron September 27 1837 | 253 |
To Andrew Jackson Donelson November 10 1837 | 266 |
From Cave Johnson November 28 1837 | 276 |
From James Walker December 7 1837 | 282 |
From Samuel Martin December 12 1837 | 288 |
From John O Bradford December 18 1837 | 294 |
From Elihu C Crisp December 20 1837 | 301 |
1838 | 307 |
From Thomas J Hall January 3 1838 | 313 |
From Levin H Coe January 6 1838 | 317 |
To Jeremiah Day January 8 1838 | 323 |
From John W Childress January 14 1838 | 331 |
From Jesse F Cleveland January 23 1838 | 337 |
From Samuel W Polk January 28 1838 | 343 |
To James L Edwards February 2 1838 | 350 |
To Levi Woodbury February 5 1838 | 357 |
From Alexander H Coffey February 13 1838 | 363 |
From John O Bradford February 20 1838 | 370 |
From Daniel Graham March 1 1838 | 377 |
To Mahlon Dickerson March 7 1838 | 383 |
From John Catron April 28 1838 | 431 |
From John Gardiner May 7 1838 | 437 |
To Arthur P Bagby May 10 1838 | 442 |
From Jacob L Martin May 16 1838 | 449 |
From John O Bradford May 21 1838 | 456 |
From William H Polk May 25 1838 | 462 |
From Cave Johnson June 1 1838 | 468 |
To Andrew Jackson June 11 1838 | 474 |
From Edwin Croswell June 16 1838 | 480 |
1838 | 485 |
From Edwin Croswell June 24 1838 | 491 |
From Caruthers Harris Company July 2 1838 | 498 |
From Henry Hubbard July 12 1838 | 504 |
To Franklin Pierce June 21 1838 483 | 511 |
From William Scott Haynes May 9 1838 440 | 512 |
From John H Bills August 1 1838 | 517 |
To Andrew Jackson August 7 1838 | 524 |
To Martin Van Buren August 8 1838 | 526 |
From Joel M Smith September 7 1838 | 539 |
From William J Whitthorne January 13 1837 31 | 549 |
From Aaron V Brown September 17 1838 | 552 |
From P C Caldwell September 27 1838 | 566 |
From William N Porter October 13 1838 | 579 |
From George W Hopkins October 29 1838 | 592 |
From A M M Upshaw November 8 1838 | 605 |
From Abraham McClellan November 12 1838 | 606 |
From Richard H Allen November 26 1838 | 619 |
From Sackfield Maclin December 5 1838 | 632 |
From William Conner December 12 1838 | 645 |
From William C Campbell December 15 1838 | 650 |
From William D Moseley January 17 1837 35 | 657 |
From Joel M Smith December 27 1838 | 663 |
Vanliga ord och fraser
Addressed to Columbia Addressed to Washington administration Andrew Jackson answer appointment Armstrong Bank beat believe Bell bill Buren called candidate cause Clay Congress County course court Dear Sir Democrat District doubt editor election establishment expect favor fear feel friends give Governor Grundy hand hear hope House interest Jackson James January John Johnson Judge June land late lawyer leave legislature letter majority March matter meeting Mississippi moved Nashville never opinion opposition party passed political Polk Polk's Post present President probably published received reference Representatives Republican request respects Samuel Senate served session Smith soon speech success Tennessee term thing Thomas thought tion Treasury Union United vote Walker week Whig White wish write written
Populära avsnitt
Sida xxvi - Bassett, The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters (Northampton, Mass., 1925).
Hänvisningar till den här boken
Tennessee: the Dangerous Example; Watauga to 1849 Mary French Caldwell Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1974 |
A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy Donald B. Cole Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2004 |