The Statesmen of America in 1846

An Englishwoman's positive account of 1840s America, describing senators, judges, officers, clergy and presidents she personally met.

Sarah Mytton Maury (Author)

9781108003025, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

564 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.71 kg

In this book, first published in 1847, the English author Sarah Mytton Maury gives a personal and very positive account of her impressions of the United States upon arriving there in late 1845. Through marriage she gains access to many American statesmen of her day, and the book is dedicated to James Buchanan, later President of the United States. Maury portrays prominent senators, judges, officers, members of the clergy and Presidents John Adams and James K. Polk. Many of the descriptions are interspersed with extracts from speeches and letters by those portrayed. The book gives a great deal of attention to the early nineteenth-century dispute between Britain and the United States about territorial claims in the north-west, the so-called 'Oregon Question'. On this question as in other matters of contention or cultural differences between the two countries, Maury maintains a position of neutrality.

1. The President and the people of the United States
2. James Buchanan
3. William Henry Seward
4. William H. Haywood
5. Hugh White
6. John Y. Mason
7. Abbott Lawrence
8. Thomas H. Benton
9. Samuel D. Hubbard
10. Martin Van Buren
11. Robert C. Winthrop
12. Roger B. Taney
13. John McLean
14. Daniel Webster and Rufus Choat
15. Edward A . Hannegan
16. John Quincy Adams
17. Albert Gallatin
18. Oregon and Canada, remarks on
19. Charles Jared Ingersoll
20. Edmund Gaines
21. Matthew Fontaine Maury
22. John Caldwell Calhoun
23. Henry Clay
24. Right Rev. John Hughes, Catholic Bishop of New York
25. Note on the Corps Diplomatique at Washington
26. Essay on free trade, by the authoress
27. The Catholic Church in Oregon
28. Notes on the Mexican War.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]