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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... rights of the slave states . Surely if it is an evil as you say , you are bound to exert yourself to put it down there as well . At times , abolitionists even acknowledged that they shared common Lincoln's Defense of Politics 2.
... rights of the slave states . Surely if it is an evil as you say , you are bound to exert yourself to put it down there as well . At times , abolitionists even acknowledged that they shared common Lincoln's Defense of Politics 2.
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... common ground with proslavery Democrats in opposing the moderate antislav- ery position . Frederick Douglass wrote in an 1855 editorial entitled “ The True Ground upon Which to Meet Slavery , ” Free Soilism is lame , halt and blind ...
... common ground with proslavery Democrats in opposing the moderate antislav- ery position . Frederick Douglass wrote in an 1855 editorial entitled “ The True Ground upon Which to Meet Slavery , ” Free Soilism is lame , halt and blind ...
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... compromise . In a sense , the abolitionists and the proslavery party were addressing each other , not only because “ the extremes have a common interest against the mean , ” but also because their views Stephen A. Douglas 15.
... compromise . In a sense , the abolitionists and the proslavery party were addressing each other , not only because “ the extremes have a common interest against the mean , ” but also because their views Stephen A. Douglas 15.
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... common to abolitionists and southern fire-eaters. Stephens, for his own part, did not succeed in establishing a satisfactory connection between the objects he defended; his lack of success indirectly confirms the relation between ...
... common to abolitionists and southern fire-eaters. Stephens, for his own part, did not succeed in establishing a satisfactory connection between the objects he defended; his lack of success indirectly confirms the relation between ...
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... common country , ” that a “ word ' fitly spoken ' by you now , would indeed be ' like apples of gold , in pictures of silver . ' Follow- ing this quotation from Proverbs , Stephens added , “ I entreat you be not deceived as to the ...
... common country , ” that a “ word ' fitly spoken ' by you now , would indeed be ' like apples of gold , in pictures of silver . ' Follow- ing this quotation from Proverbs , Stephens added , “ I entreat you be not deceived as to the ...
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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