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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... expressed in the Declaration of Independence “ which , nevertheless , stood in the way of that defence . ” But instead of introducing new axioms in place of the old , Fitzhugh maintained that “ a ' frequent recur- rence to fundamental ...
... expressed in the Declaration of Independence “ which , nevertheless , stood in the way of that defence . ” But instead of introducing new axioms in place of the old , Fitzhugh maintained that “ a ' frequent recur- rence to fundamental ...
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... expressed, but they were “in strict keeping with the doctrines put forth by him in his Illinois [senatorial] cam- paign” in 1858—precisely the doctrines that Lincoln in November 1860 urged southerners who had questions about his ...
... expressed, but they were “in strict keeping with the doctrines put forth by him in his Illinois [senatorial] cam- paign” in 1858—precisely the doctrines that Lincoln in November 1860 urged southerners who had questions about his ...
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... expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free ' and his oath of office as president of a slaveholding republic , ” quoting from Lincoln's well - known August 1862 letter to the editor Horace Greeley . McPherson seems to ...
... expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free ' and his oath of office as president of a slaveholding republic , ” quoting from Lincoln's well - known August 1862 letter to the editor Horace Greeley . McPherson seems to ...
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... expressed in Lincoln's “House Divided” speech that the Union would eventually “become all one thing, or all the other”—all slave or all free. Douglas is calling his auditors' attention to the unques- tionable fact that in some parts of ...
... expressed in Lincoln's “House Divided” speech that the Union would eventually “become all one thing, or all the other”—all slave or all free. Douglas is calling his auditors' attention to the unques- tionable fact that in some parts of ...
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... expressed, though in an extreme form, an opin- ion that was evidently widespread in the South; as to the Union, he stood against such an opinion. If Stephens was willing to hazard his political fortunes in the one instance, it seems ...
... expressed, though in an extreme form, an opin- ion that was evidently widespread in the South; as to the Union, he stood against such an opinion. If Stephens was willing to hazard his political fortunes in the one instance, it seems ...
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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