The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War EraFordham Univ Press, 2010 M05 3 - 306 páginas In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. In this innovative study, Andrew Slap argues forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. The election, he demonstrates, had broad consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption, Greeley Republicans unintentionally doomed Reconstruction of any kind, even as they lost the election. Based on close readings of newspapers, party documents, and other primary sources, Slap confronts one of the major questions in American political history: How, and why, did Reconstruction come to an end? His focus on the unintended consequences of Liberal Republican politics is a provocative contribution to this important debate. |
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... letters indicate that between thirty to forty men may actually have attended some meetings , according to Adams , “ Certain men met together at Washing- ton , and subsequently in New York — editors , economists , politicians and men of ...
... letters , I realized that my original hypothesis was wrong , but I was intrigued by the numerous private references to corruption , tyranny , and republican government . The liberal republicans ' papers convinced me that classical ...
... letters during college refer to classical authors such as Cicero and discuss the difficulty of learning French and German while still studying Greek and Latin. Years after graduating from Williams, a college that produced several of the ...
... letter , “ a more mature consideration convinces me that the facility of amendment through the Legislature , which it provides , holds out infinitely more hope . . . than the old Constitution . " Throughout the rest of the campaign ...
... letter to the governor of Missouri with a cover letter endorsing the position . “ I am devoted to civil and religious liberty on principle , and cannot consent to violations of either , " he insisted , “ no matter how dear they may be ...
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Preserving the Republic while | 51 |
The Liberal Republican Dilemma | 73 |
Legacies of the Civil War Threaten | 90 |
Grant and the Republic | 111 |
The National Phase of the Liberal | 126 |
The Experience of a Third Party | 164 |
The Lasting Effect of 1872 Campaign | 199 |
The Liberal Republicans Try Again | 222 |
Conclusion | 238 |
Bibliography | 279 |
Index | 295 |
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