Author: Salmon Portland ChasePublisher:
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, 1865-1873
Author: Salmon Portland ChasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, April 1863-1864
Author: Salmon Portland ChasePublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385671
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This fourth volume of the Salmon P. Chase papers covers the last 15 months of his tenure as Treasury secretary and concludes with his nomination as Chief Justice of the United States. Letters that document his increasing alienation from the Lincoln administration are featured.
The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, 1865-1873
Author: Salmon Portland ChasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Journals, 1829-1872
Author: Salmon Portland ChasePublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873386180
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This is the first of a proposed six-volume edition of the selected papers of Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873), a notable figure in the anti-slavery movement and American politics of the 19th century. This volume includes his Civil War-era diaries and his account of a tour of the South in 1865.
The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, 1823-1857
Author: Salmon Portland ChasePublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385084
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Salmon P. Chase first gained prominence during the 1840s and 50s as a leader in the anti-slavery movement and as a founder of the Liberty, Free-Soil and Republican parties, before becoming a Senator. This book sets out his correspondence with many prominent political figures of the day.
The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, 1858-March 1863
Author: Salmon Portland ChasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The third volume of The Salmon P. Chase Papers documents Chase's career from early 1868--the beginning of his second terms as the governor of Ohio--through the pivotal election of 1860 and the first two years of his service as secretary of the Treasury in Abraham Lincoln's wartime cabinet. Now for the first time there is ready access to a crucial record of the nation's descent into civil war. The National Historical Publications and Records Commission provides financial support for the publication of The Salmon P. Chase Papers.
The Salmon P. Chase Papers
Author: Salmon Portland ChasePublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384728
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
The Greatest and the Grandest Act
Author: Christian G. SamitoPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809336529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
"This volume, which contains essays by both historians and legal scholars, examines various aspects of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal civil rights statute in American history"--
Salmon P. Chase
Author: John NivenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195364384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, and the presiding officer of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Yet he was also a complex figure. As John Niven reveals in this magisterial biography, Chase was a paradoxical blend of idealism and ambition. If he stood for the highest moral purposes--the freedom and equality of all mankind--these lofty ideas failed to mask a thirst for power so deeply ingrained in his character that it drove away many who shared his principles, but mistrusted his motives. Niven provides a vivid description of Chase's early years--his childhood in New Hampshire (where his father's failed business venture and early death left the family all but destitute) and in Ohio (where he was sent to live with his uncle Philander, an Episcopal bishop), his education at Dartmouth, and his early law career in Cincinnati. Niven shows how the plight of the slaves stirred this reticent young lawyer, and how Chase gradually moved to the forefront of the antislavery movement. At the same time, we see how he used his growing prominence in the antislavery movement to forward his political ambitions. Niven illuminates Chase's long tenure as a public man. Twice elected United States Senator, twice chosen governor of Ohio (then the third most populous state in the Union), Chase organized the widespread but diffuse anti-slavery movement into a workable political organization, the Free Soil party (whose slogan "Free Soil, Free Labor, Freemen" Chase coined himself). We read of Chase's work in Lincoln's war cabinet and his tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and we also follow his many political maneuvers, his attempts to undercut rivals, and his poorly run campaigns for presidential nominations. Niven also provides an intimate portrait of Chase's family life--his loss of three wives and four of his six children, and the unfortunate marriage of his beautiful daughter Kate to a rich but dissolute man--and a vivid picture of life at mid-century. What emerges is a portrait of a tragic figure, whose high qualities of heart and mind and whose many achievements were ultimately tarnished by an often unseemly quest for power. It is a striking look at an eminent statesman as well as a revealing glimpse into political life in 19th-century America, all set against a background of the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, and the turmoil of Reconstruction.
A Glorious Liberty
Author: Damon RootPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640123814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass's fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American history in the nineteenth century and beyond. At a time when the principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were under assault, Frederick Douglass picked up their banner, championing inalienable rights for all, regardless of race. When Americans were killing each other on the battlefield, Douglass fought for a cause greater than the mere preservation of the Union. "No war but an Abolition war," he maintained. "No peace but an Abolition peace." In the aftermath of the Civil War, when state and local governments were violating the rights of the recently emancipated, Douglass preached the importance of "the ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box" in the struggle against Jim Crow. Frederick Douglass, the former slave who had secretly taught himself how to read, would teach the American people a thing or two about the true meaning of the Constitution. This is the story of a fundamental debate that goes to the very heart of America's founding ideals--a debate that is still very much with us today.