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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... Republican candidates and supporting the unelectable candi- dates put forward by the political abolitionists. Douglass's ambivalence about politics, even after 1851, makes his dispute with the Garrisonians less revealing as to the ...
... Republican candidates and supporting the unelectable candi- dates put forward by the political abolitionists. Douglass's ambivalence about politics, even after 1851, makes his dispute with the Garrisonians less revealing as to the ...
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... Republican nonextension program appears more moderate in ret- rospect than it did at the time. Many Americans did find Lincoln's party too radical; but others faulted it because its opposition to slavery did not in their view go far ...
... Republican nonextension program appears more moderate in ret- rospect than it did at the time. Many Americans did find Lincoln's party too radical; but others faulted it because its opposition to slavery did not in their view go far ...
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... Republicans had simply bowed to political necessity . Surely , the abolitionists insisted , the Republican and Democratic positions did not exhaust the alternatives . If it was politically necessary for mainstream parties to confine the ...
... Republicans had simply bowed to political necessity . Surely , the abolitionists insisted , the Republican and Democratic positions did not exhaust the alternatives . If it was politically necessary for mainstream parties to confine the ...
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... Republicans ' antislavery motives than most aboli- tionists did while the president was alive , but he remained puzzled by their willingness to “ fight their battle while wearing the shackles imposed upon them by the compromises of the ...
... Republicans ' antislavery motives than most aboli- tionists did while the president was alive , but he remained puzzled by their willingness to “ fight their battle while wearing the shackles imposed upon them by the compromises of the ...
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... Republican anti - extension program lay in its symbolic meaning as a commitment to the principle of ultimate extinction . Some later generation , he thought , would then convert the principle into practice . What this amounted to , in a ...
... Republican anti - extension program lay in its symbolic meaning as a commitment to the principle of ultimate extinction . Some later generation , he thought , would then convert the principle into practice . What this amounted to , in 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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