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HISE, Elijah (1802-1867) was a United States diplomat and U.S. Representative from the seventh district of Kentucky. Hise was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1829. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1836. He served as the Chargé d'Affaires to Guatemala, January 31, 1849–June 23, 1849. In addition, he was the chief justice of the court of appeals of Kentucky. Hise was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Grider, and he was reelected to the Fortieth Congress. In all he served from December 3, 1866, until his death 8 May 1867 in Russellville, Kentucky. Autograph Letter Signed “Elijah Hise” 3pp. quarto, Russellsville, Logan County, Kentucky, November 14, 1844, with integral leaf addressed to General John M. McCalla, of Lexington, Kentucky, and reads in part: “...Please remember me to Genl. M Calla and let him know that he cannot conceive the extent of my satisfaction at the success of the democracy except by reference to his own feelings. I know he is rejoiced beyond the powers of expression. There was so much at stake. 1st We are saved from the shylock dominion of the money changers. 2d The Constitution is saved from mutilation. 3d Texas and Oregon secured from British influence of not dominion, and Texas incorporated in the American union. 4th The Agricultural and planting classes saved from legal plunder. 5th The Land Revenue saved to uphold the credit and meet the necessary expenditures of the Genl. Govt. 6 The most ruthless Civil proscription directed & carried into effect by Executioners acting under the arbitrary commands of the man who said upon the floor of the Senate of the U.S. that ‘The Democrats were like condemned felons upon a cart going to Execution.’ This most ruthless and universal proscription has been prevented, and the insatiate maw of this modern Marcus will never be filled with the food it so much craves. 7th National Debt funding system, British influence and finally a dissolution of the union all, all prevented by the gallant brave & virtuous democracy of the union. 8th We have lastly secured a wise virtuous and Patriotic chief magistrate for the ensuing four years...” Some paper loss, though does not affect text, else very good condition. In the United States presidential election of 1844, Democrat James Knox Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed. Democratic nominee James K. Polk ran on a platform that embraced American territorial expansionism, an idea soon to be called Manifest Destiny. At their convention, the Democrats called for the annexation of Texas and asserted that the United States had a “clear and unquestionable” claim to “the whole” of Oregon. By informally tying the Oregon boundary dispute to the more controversial Texas debate, the Democrats appealed to both Northern expansionists (who were more adamant about the Oregon boundary) and Southern expansionists (who were more focused on annexing Texas as a slave state). Polk went on to win a narrow victory over Whig candidate Henry Clay, in part because Clay had taken a stand against expansion, although economic issues were also of great importance. (The slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!” is often incorrectly regarded as being part this president's election campaign rhetoric; it became a popular slogan in the months after the election, used by those proposing the most extreme solution to the Oregon boundary dispute).
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