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

WASHINGTON:

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

ENG

06891

C.2

COPYRIGHT, 1914

BY THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

WASHINGTON, D. C.

THE LORD BALTIMORE PRESS
BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A.

TO MY WIFE