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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... executive claim to the war power suggested a serious split between Lincoln and the radicals . The influential Fessenden , who had reluctantly voted for the measure but now feared that a veto would " dishearten the country , " went to ...
... executive claim to the war power suggested a serious split between Lincoln and the radicals . The influential Fessenden , who had reluctantly voted for the measure but now feared that a veto would " dishearten the country , " went to ...
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... executive noncompliance with congressional law . The Supreme Court refused to take up the question of political prisoners until after the war . Yet tales of an American Bastille were exaggerated . It was once believed that the number of ...
... executive noncompliance with congressional law . The Supreme Court refused to take up the question of political prisoners until after the war . Yet tales of an American Bastille were exaggerated . It was once believed that the number of ...
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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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