PRIZE ESSAYS

OF THE

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

1912

To this Essay was awarded the
JUSTIN WINSOR PRIZE

IN AMERICAN HISTORY
for 1912

THE

WHIG PARTY IN THE SOUTH

BY

ARTHUR CHARLES COLE, PH. D.

INSTRUCTOR IN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School
of the University of Pennsylvania in partial ful-
filment of the requirements for the degree

of Doctor of Philosophy, 1911

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PRIZE ESSAYS OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 1912
WASHINGTON, 1913