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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... positions, as they did their views of his. Crisis of the House Divided adopts the perspective of voters in the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign who were called upon to endorse one of the two alternatives represented by the candidates ...
... positions, as they did their views of his. Crisis of the House Divided adopts the perspective of voters in the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign who were called upon to endorse one of the two alternatives represented by the candidates ...
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... dis- claimed any power under the Constitution to interfere with slavery in the states. Lincoln personally took this position as early as 1854, before the Republican Party had even been founded . He would. 1 Chapter 1 A Divided Lincoln?
... dis- claimed any power under the Constitution to interfere with slavery in the states. Lincoln personally took this position as early as 1854, before the Republican Party had even been founded . He would. 1 Chapter 1 A Divided Lincoln?
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... positions did not exhaust the alternatives . If it was politically necessary for mainstream parties to confine the debate to terms set by the Constitution , political necessity after all was not the same thing as simple necessity . A ...
... positions did not exhaust the alternatives . If it was politically necessary for mainstream parties to confine the debate to terms set by the Constitution , political necessity after all was not the same thing as simple necessity . A ...
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... position . Frederick Douglass wrote in an 1855 editorial entitled “ The True Ground upon Which to Meet Slavery ... positions taken by men like [ Henry ] Clay ” of whom Lincoln is reported to have told a Missouri congressman in 1864 , " I ...
... position . Frederick Douglass wrote in an 1855 editorial entitled “ The True Ground upon Which to Meet Slavery ... positions taken by men like [ Henry ] Clay ” of whom Lincoln is reported to have told a Missouri congressman in 1864 , " I ...
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... position on slavery to acquaint themselves with. It was a question not of Lincoln's integrity as a man—“We have a favorable opinion of the personal and even the political integrity of Abraham Lincoln”—but of the logical tendency of his ...
... position on slavery to acquaint themselves with. It was a question not of Lincoln's integrity as a man—“We have a favorable opinion of the personal and even the political integrity of Abraham Lincoln”—but of the logical tendency of his ...
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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