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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... secretary of state twice became the center of major crises in presidential leadership ; the secretary of the treasury never let up striving to preside over the cabinet ; and the postmaster general became a sacrificial lamb to party ...
... secretary of state twice became the center of major crises in presidential leadership ; the secretary of the treasury never let up striving to preside over the cabinet ; and the postmaster general became a sacrificial lamb to party ...
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... secretary of the treasury , had little qualification for his post but much qualification for an important appointment . Of all the cabinet he had been slavery's strongest foe , shifting parties with the anti- slavery winds , from Whig ...
... secretary of the treasury , had little qualification for his post but much qualification for an important appointment . Of all the cabinet he had been slavery's strongest foe , shifting parties with the anti- slavery winds , from Whig ...
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... secretary of the treasury broad discretion about the means of borrowing . Stevens was in command , urging Congress " to give everything the government asks . " He moved for a suspension of the rules , then allowed only one hour for ...
... secretary of the treasury broad discretion about the means of borrowing . Stevens was in command , urging Congress " to give everything the government asks . " He moved for a suspension of the rules , then allowed only one hour for ...
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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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