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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... tion , and he went over to the Capitol for further talks with Border men . That staunch antislavery senator , Grimes , objected to the direct introduc- tion of a bill by the executive . " I do not recognize the right of the President to ...
... tion , and he went over to the Capitol for further talks with Border men . That staunch antislavery senator , Grimes , objected to the direct introduc- tion of a bill by the executive . " I do not recognize the right of the President to ...
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... tion and conscription were required to win the war . We can never consent , he said , to the breakup of the Union , but war alone will not preserve it . We will hold out every inducement to Southerners to return to their old allegiance ...
... tion and conscription were required to win the war . We can never consent , he said , to the breakup of the Union , but war alone will not preserve it . We will hold out every inducement to Southerners to return to their old allegiance ...
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... tion . The venerable constitutional lawyer from Maryland , Reverdy John- son , former Attorney General of the United States , a Clay Whig turned Democrat , added to the opposition ability and learning presented with orotund tones . In ...
... tion . The venerable constitutional lawyer from Maryland , Reverdy John- son , former Attorney General of the United States , a Clay Whig turned Democrat , added to the opposition ability and learning presented with orotund tones . In ...
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Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER | 6 |
The Appeal to Arms | 18 |
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