Author: Thomas Lanier ClingmanPublisher:
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Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Speech of T.L. Clingman, of North Carolina, on the Principles of the Whig and Democratic Parties
Author: Thomas Lanier ClingmanPublisher:
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Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Author: Hinton Rowan HelperPublisher:
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Disunion!
Author: Elizabeth R. VaronPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807887188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, "disunion" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which they could achieve their partisan and sectional goals. Varon blends political history with intellectual, cultural, and gender history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis of 1860-61.
Annals of Cleveland
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)Publisher:
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
National Register of Microform Masters
Author: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Strife of Tongues
Author: Stephen E. MaizlishPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that "words become things." Indeed, in politics—then, as now—rhetoric makes reality. But while the legislative maneuvering, factional alignments, and specific measures of the Compromise of 1850 have been exhaustively studied, much of the language of the debate, where underlying beliefs and assumptions were revealed, has been neglected. The Compromise of 1850 attempted to defuse confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War—which would be free, which would allow slavery, and how the Fugitive Slave Law would be enacted. A Strife of Tongues tells the cultural and intellectual history of this pivotal political event through the lens of language, revealing the complex context of northern and southern ideological opposition within which the Civil War occurred a decade later. Deftly drawing on extensive records, from public discourse to private letters, Stephen Maizlish animates the most famous political characters of the age in their own words. This novel account reveals a telling irony—that the Compromise debates of 1850 only made obvious the hardening of sectional division of ideology, which led to a breakdown in the spirit of compromise in the antebellum period and laid the foundations of the U.S. Civil War.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368124129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.