The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 15

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 15: January-October, 1938 Badger entered the United States Senate during an exciting period of American history. The war with Mexico, which had begun in May, 1846, was well under way. The Whigs, the minority part of the Senate, were opposed to the war from the beginning, and did much to hamper the President in its conduct. They considered it much as a party issue in that they thought the Democrats were sponsoring the war largely for political purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.