The Politics of Union: Northern Politics During the Civil WarUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1980 - 202 páginas "The best general account of politics in the North," as David Herbert Donald calls this book, is also the first one-volume history of its subject. Abraham Lincoln's single goal of saving the Union required not simply subduing the South but contending as well with divisiveness in the North--with refractory state officials, draft resisters, peace advocates, secret organizations, with Northern Democrats (too often seen only as Copperheads or as traitors to the Union), and with powerful Republicans who often vocally disagreed with Lincoln's policies. In this account, Radical Republicans represent consensus with Lincoln more than conflict, sectional more than economic interests, and party over faction. Largely, dissent was heard and accommodated; and, if the federal legislation of the time did amount to a Second American Revolution, it emerged from the conflicts, within the North as well as against the South, of a nation at war. The outcome was a nation not only saved but strengthened and slavery ended. |
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... Sumner had said , " It is true the President is Commander - in - Chief ; but it is for the Congress to make all laws necessary and proper for carry- ing into execution his powers . . . . " Conservative Republicans had ob- jected to this ...
... Sumner had said , " It is true the President is Commander - in - Chief ; but it is for the Congress to make all laws necessary and proper for carry- ing into execution his powers . . . . " Conservative Republicans had ob- jected to this ...
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... Sumner had discovered in the diplomatic correspondence a dispatch linking abolitionists and extreme advocates of slavery as equal enemies of the Union . He referred to this and other offensive remarks by the jaunty secretary during the ...
... Sumner had discovered in the diplomatic correspondence a dispatch linking abolitionists and extreme advocates of slavery as equal enemies of the Union . He referred to this and other offensive remarks by the jaunty secretary during the ...
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... Sumner's objections in the Senate . By a 21 to 9 vote , the Senate placed the bureau under the Treasury , where the ardent anti- slavery Chase might be expected to keep an eye on its operations . The lower chamber non - concurred , and ...
... Sumner's objections in the Senate . By a 21 to 9 vote , the Senate placed the bureau under the Treasury , where the ardent anti- slavery Chase might be expected to keep an eye on its operations . The lower chamber non - concurred , and ...
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Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER | 6 |
The Appeal to Arms | 18 |
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The Politics of Union: Northern Politics During the Civil War James A. Rawley Vista de fragmentos - 1974 |
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