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- Title
Silk-Stocking Sympathy: American Whig Rhetoric and the Irish Famine.
- Authors
FARRELL, JAMES M.
- Abstract
The article discusses that Irish overwhelmingly favored the Democratic Party, and thus Irish political influence posed an existential threat to the Whig Party. It mentions Whig Party had a virulent anti-Catholic element that continually fed nativist sentiment within its ranks. It also mentions American philanthropy historian Merle Curti observed that the national campaign for Irish Famine relief and Whigs prided themselves on being the party of moral reform.
- Subjects
DEMOCRATIC Party (U.S.); IRISH Americans; WHIG Party (U.S.); CATHOLIC Church; GREAT Famine, Ireland, 1845-1852
- Publication
Eire-Ireland, 2019, Vol 54, Issue 3/4, p206
- ISSN
0013-2683
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/eir.2019.0019