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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... distinction between territories and states fed suspicions among abolitionists that Lincoln and the Republicans had simply bowed to political necessity. Surely, the abolitionists insisted, the Republican and Democratic positions did not ...
... distinction between territories and states fed suspicions among abolitionists that Lincoln and the Republicans had simply bowed to political necessity. Surely, the abolitionists insisted, the Republican and Democratic positions did not ...
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... distinction without a difference.”8 Along with those who opposed Lincoln because they could not see the difference between extinctionism and abolitionism, there was the small but committed group that opposed him because they ascribed ...
... distinction without a difference.”8 Along with those who opposed Lincoln because they could not see the difference between extinctionism and abolitionism, there was the small but committed group that opposed him because they ascribed ...
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... distinction between natural law and positive law, or natural rights and legal rights, is implied in Lincoln's satire on Douglas's reading of the Declaration—“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all British subjects who were on ...
... distinction between natural law and positive law, or natural rights and legal rights, is implied in Lincoln's satire on Douglas's reading of the Declaration—“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all British subjects who were on ...
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... Creator to the utmost limits of his works. We see it in the heavens above . . . we see it in the earth below, in the vegetable and animal kingdoms ...we see similar distinctions and gradations in the races Lincoln's Defense of Politics 26.
... Creator to the utmost limits of his works. We see it in the heavens above . . . we see it in the earth below, in the vegetable and animal kingdoms ...we see similar distinctions and gradations in the races Lincoln's Defense of Politics 26.
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... distinctions and gradations in the races of men, from the highest to the lowest type.2 The defense of slavery presented in the Cornerstone speech was not new; what was new was the translation of the higher law of racial inequality into ...
... distinctions and gradations in the races of men, from the highest to the lowest type.2 The defense of slavery presented in the Cornerstone speech was not new; what was new was the translation of the higher law of racial inequality into ...
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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