The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil WarOxford University Press, 1981 M09 17 - 320 páginas A collection of essays by a master historian. Amongst the subjects that Stampp tackles are the inevitability of the Civil War and the truth about why the confederacy actually died. The other essays are a mix of historiography and analysis of issues including Lincoln's role in reinforcing Fort Sumter, the impact of psychology in trading slaves, and the role of racism in the Republican Party. |
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... It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual , by the Articles of Confederation of 1778. And finally , in 1787 , one of the declared objects for ...
... It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual , by the Articles of Confederation of 1778. And finally , in 1787 , one of the declared objects for ...
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The Search for | 39 |
A Humanistic Perspective | 72 |
Race Slavery and the Republican Party | 105 |
The Republican National Convention of 1860 | 136 |
Lincoln and the Secession Crisis | 163 |
The Irrepressible Conflict | 191 |
The Southern Road to Appomattox | 246 |
Notes | 271 |
Index | 309 |
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The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War Kenneth M. Stampp Vista previa limitada - 1981 |
The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War Kenneth M. Stampp Vista previa limitada - 1981 |
The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War, Volumen2 Kenneth Milton Stampp Vista de fragmentos - 1980 |
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Página 133 - That is the issue that will continue in this country, when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles— right and wrong— throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same...
Página 128 - I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races...
Página 176 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 5 - Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual, confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774.
Página 253 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Página 28 - That the United States form, for many, and for most important purposes, a single nation, has not yet been denied. In war, we are one people. In making peace, we are one people. In all commercial regulations, we are one and the same people. In many other respects, the American people are one; and the government which is alone capable of controlling and managing their interests, in all these respects, is the government of the Union.
Página 12 - I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Página 29 - America has chosen to be, in many respects, and to many purposes, a nation ; and for all these purposes her government is complete ; to all these objects it is competent.
Página 15 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...