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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... called " the attorney - general for runaway Negroes " ; and as an author of the " Appeal of the Independent Democrats , " he had stoutly opposed Douglas ' Kansas- Nebraska bill and had contributed to the making of the Republican party ...
... called " the attorney - general for runaway Negroes " ; and as an author of the " Appeal of the Independent Democrats , " he had stoutly opposed Douglas ' Kansas- Nebraska bill and had contributed to the making of the Republican party ...
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... called attention to the significance of sections in American history . Sectionalism , derived from the localization of Black slavery in one part of the Union , as Lincoln observed , " was somehow the cause of the war . " Antagonisms ...
... called attention to the significance of sections in American history . Sectionalism , derived from the localization of Black slavery in one part of the Union , as Lincoln observed , " was somehow the cause of the war . " Antagonisms ...
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... called for on July 2 , the defi- ciency would also be met by a militia draft . The War Department also issued orders to prevent draft evasion and to suppress disloyal practices . No one liable for the draft was allowed to leave the ...
... called for on July 2 , the defi- ciency would also be met by a militia draft . The War Department also issued orders to prevent draft evasion and to suppress disloyal practices . No one liable for the draft was allowed to leave the ...
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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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