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The life of John Randolph of Roanoke /

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This work is a biography of John Randolph of Roanoke, an influential conservative Congressman and Senator from 1799 and 1833.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garland, Hugh A., 1805-1854 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Philadelphia : D. Appleton & Company ; Geo S. Appleton, 1850.
Subjects:
Randolph, John, > 1773-1833.
Online Access:Internet Archive, v.1
University of Pittsburgh, v.1
University of Pittsburgh, v.2
Table of Contents:
  • volume 1. Birthplace
  • Matoax-Genealogy
  • Childhood
  • Family Circle
  • Flight from Matoax
  • At School
  • The Constitution in its Chrysalis State
  • George Mason
  • Early Political Associations
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Small Beginnings-Edmund Burke-Thomas Paine
  • Youthful Companions
  • Richard Randolph
  • Visit to Charleston and Georgia
  • At Home
  • Candidate for Congress-History of the Times
  • The Fauchet Letter
  • Mr. Monroe-France-Mr. Adams elected President
  • The X. Y. Z. Business
  • Patrick Henry
  • March Court-The Rising and the Setting Sun
  • France and the Administration
  • Scene in the Play-House-Standing Army
  • Make to yourself an Idol, and, in spite of the Decalogue, Worship it
  • The course of True Love never did run Smooth
  • Presidential Election, 1800-1-Midnight Judges
  • The Seventh and Eighth Congresses-Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means-The Working Period-The Yazoo Business
  • Friendship
  • Ninth Congress-Foreign Relations-Difficulties with France and Spain
  • Difficulties with Great Britain
  • Closing Scene
  • Aaron Burr
  • Embargo-The Iliad of all our Woes
  • Gunboats
  • James Madison-Presidential Election
  • War with England
  • Clay-Calhoun.
  • volume 2. Roanoake-Retirement
  • Ancestral pride-St. George-Madness
  • Military Campaign
  • New England
  • Religion-1815
  • Political Reflections-Congress-Bank Charter
  • Religion-Home-Solitude
  • "Dying, Sir-Dying"
  • Conversion
  • Idiosyncracies
  • Congress-Political Parties
  • Missouri Question
  • Compromise Bill smuggled through the House
  • "I now go for blood"-Madness
  • Missouri Question-Act the Second
  • "Be not solitary; be not idle"-His Will-Slaves
  • Log-book and Letters
  • The Apportionment Bill
  • Pinckney, Marshall, Tazewell-Departure for Europe
  • The Voyage
  • Incidents in England
  • Eighteenth Congress-Consolidation is the order of the day- "Speak a cheering word to the Greeks"
  • Internal Improvements
  • Supreme Court-Dull dinner-Huddlesford's Oak
  • Tariff-Prophecy-Lewis McLean
  • Second Voyage to Europe
  • Presidential Election
  • "Such constituents as man never had before, and never will have again"
  • The Adams Administration
  • The Panama Mission-Blifil and Black George
  • Duel with Henry Clay
  • Negro Slavery
  • Letters from Abroad
  • Ejection from the Senate
  • Election to the House of Representatives
  • Leader of the Opposition-A wise and masterly inactivity
  • Letters from Roanoke
  • Presidential Election-Retirement from Congress
  • Elected to the Convention
  • The Virginia Convention-Every change is not reform
  • Mission to Russia
  • Opium Eater
  • The Consummation
  • "I have been sick all my life "-Death.