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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... doubt the 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 ...
... doubt the 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 ...
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... doubt were , 2 did not necessarily change Lincoln's view of the broader , longer- term tendencies he had identified in 1852 , to which Douglas's career was incidental . That year , in a public tribute to Henry Clay , Lincoln had spoken ...
... doubt were , 2 did not necessarily change Lincoln's view of the broader , longer- term tendencies he had identified in 1852 , to which Douglas's career was incidental . That year , in a public tribute to Henry Clay , Lincoln had spoken ...
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... doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems , for which we sincerely thank them ; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits . They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and ...
... doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems , for which we sincerely thank them ; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits . They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and ...
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... doubt as , for exam- ple , in regard to the power of Congress to exclude slavery from the federal territories.5 Commenting on Seward's “ supposed proclamation of a ' higher law , " Lincoln admitted that he had not read the speech in ...
... doubt as , for exam- ple , in regard to the power of Congress to exclude slavery from the federal territories.5 Commenting on Seward's “ supposed proclamation of a ' higher law , " Lincoln admitted that he had not read the speech in ...
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... doubts. In a speech at Edwardsville, Illinois, in 1858, Lincoln introduced the following extract from Henry Clay: I know there are those who draw an argument in favor of slavery from the alleged intellectual inferiority of the black ...
... doubts. In a speech at Edwardsville, Illinois, in 1858, Lincoln introduced the following extract from Henry Clay: I know there are those who draw an argument in favor of slavery from the alleged intellectual inferiority of the black ...
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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