Key Players in the
Paraguayan Debate, 1858
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Jacob Collamer, the
Vermont senator who was the upper chamber's most
intellectually accomplished anti-imperialist. |
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New Hampshire's John
Hale. Now a Republican, Hale was always ready with
choice quotes attacking an expansionist foreign policy. |
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Stephen Mallory, a
Florida Democrat and the wild card in the Paraguay
debate: he opposed the administration for personal,
financial reasons. |
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Jefferson Davis. The
future president of the Confederacy was a Mississippi
senator in the 1850s. He battled with Illinois's Stephen
Douglas for the position of the Senate's most aggressive
expansionist. |
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President James
Buchanan, the man whose audacious agenda of obtaining
advanced congressional approval for his adventures in
imperialism launched the tumultuous debates of the
1850s. |
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