Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis Over Slavery"Examines six of Lincoln's key opponents (states' rights constitutionalists Alexander H. Stephens, John C. Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh; and abolitionists Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass) to illustrate the broad significance of the slavery question and to highlight the importance of political considerations in public decision making"--Provided by publisher. |
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... Civil War studies for the modern reader—Civil War buff and scholar alike. Military history today addresses the relationship between society and warfare. Thus biographies and thematic studies that deal with civilians, soldiers, and ...
... Civil War studies for the modern reader—Civil War buff and scholar alike. Military history today addresses the relationship between society and warfare. Thus biographies and thematic studies that deal with civilians, soldiers, and ...
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... civil disobedience in favor of political action against slavery. Storing regarded civil disobedience, whether in its nine- teenth-century abolitionist form or in the form practiced by Martin Luther King and his followers in the ...
... civil disobedience in favor of political action against slavery. Storing regarded civil disobedience, whether in its nine- teenth-century abolitionist form or in the form practiced by Martin Luther King and his followers in the ...
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... civil war that brought that step within view . If Lincoln's term of office had passed as peacefully as the terms of all his predecessors , the oppor- tunity to free the slaves by proclamation would never have arisen . Nor could it have ...
... civil war that brought that step within view . If Lincoln's term of office had passed as peacefully as the terms of all his predecessors , the oppor- tunity to free the slaves by proclamation would never have arisen . Nor could it have ...
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... forgotten, their constituents have permitted such injustices as slavery to continue. By contrast, few scholars of the Civil War period have regarded George Fitzhugh as worthy of their attention ( even though A Divided Lincoln? 9.
... forgotten, their constituents have permitted such injustices as slavery to continue. By contrast, few scholars of the Civil War period have regarded George Fitzhugh as worthy of their attention ( even though A Divided Lincoln? 9.
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... Civil Govern- ment , ” Statesmen and legislators , standing so completely within the institution , never distinctly and nakedly behold it . They speak of moving society , but have no resting - place without it . They may be men of a ...
... Civil Govern- ment , ” Statesmen and legislators , standing so completely within the institution , never distinctly and nakedly behold it . They speak of moving society , but have no resting - place without it . They may be men of a ...
Contents
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Chapter 5 George Fitzhugh The Tur to History | 54 |
Chapter 6 The Attack on Locke | 73 |
Part III Abolitionism Natural Justice and Its Limits | 85 |
Chapter 9 Frederick Douglass Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Problem of Consent | 125 |
Part IV Conclusion The Case for Politics | 145 |
Chapter 10 FreedomPolitical and Economic | 147 |
Chapter 11 Between Legalism and the Higher Law | 155 |
Chapter 12 Lincoln s Defense of Politics | 162 |
Epilogue Political Temperament | 179 |
Notes | 185 |
Works Cited | 205 |
Chapter 7 Henry David Thoreau The Question of Political Engagement | 87 |
Chapter 8 William Lloyd Garrison From Disunionist to Lincoln Emancipationist | 105 |
Index | 215 |
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