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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... majority verdict at the polls . With respect to the Confederacy , he rejected the political theory on which it rested , branding secession as anarchy . Majority rule , allowing change through constitutional amendment , was the true ...
... majority verdict at the polls . With respect to the Confederacy , he rejected the political theory on which it rested , branding secession as anarchy . Majority rule , allowing change through constitutional amendment , was the true ...
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... majority was hypersensitive to his suspension of the writ of habeas corpus . Breckin- ridge thought the president ought to be rebuked . John Sherman of Ohio said the Constitution gave these powers to Congress alone . To press the matter ...
... majority was hypersensitive to his suspension of the writ of habeas corpus . Breckin- ridge thought the president ought to be rebuked . John Sherman of Ohio said the Constitution gave these powers to Congress alone . To press the matter ...
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... begged their consideration of his plan before they went home for the summer . A majority of the members signed a statement rehearsing their objections and concluding that if the Congress , whose good faith SLAVERY AND POLITICS 81.
... begged their consideration of his plan before they went home for the summer . A majority of the members signed a statement rehearsing their objections and concluding that if the Congress , whose good faith SLAVERY AND POLITICS 81.
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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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