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Northern Men with Southern Loyalties : The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis / Michael Todd Landis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) : 10 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780801454837
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.718 23
LOC classification:
  • JK2316 .L36 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. “Fidelity and Firmness” -- 2. “Harmony, Unity, and Victory” -- 3. “One of the Most Reliable Politicians upon This Subject of Slavery” -- 4. “Pandora’s Box” -- 5. “Leave Us of the North to Fight the Great Battle” -- 6. “The Strongest Northern Man on Southern Principles” -- 7. “Let Us Stand by Our Colors” -- 8. “We Regarded You as Brothers” -- 9. “Though the Heavens Fall” -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the decade before the Civil War, Northern Democrats, although they ostensibly represented antislavery and free-state constituencies, made possible the passage of such proslavery legislation as the Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law of the same year, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and the Lecompton Constitution of 1858. In Northern Men with Southern Loyalties, Michael Todd Landis forcefully contends that a full understanding of the Civil War and its causes is impossible without a careful examination of Northern Democrats and their proslavery sentiments and activities. He focuses on a variety of key Democratic politicians, such as Stephen Douglas, William Marcy, and Jesse Bright, to unravel the puzzle of Northern Democratic political allegiance to the South. As congressmen, state party bosses, convention wire-pullers, cabinet officials, and presidents, these men produced the legislation and policies that led to the fragmentation of the party and catastrophic disunion.Through a careful examination of correspondence, speeches, public and private utterances, memoirs, and personal anecdotes, Landis lays bare the desires and designs of Northern Democrats. He ventures into the complex realm of state politics and party mechanics, drawing connections between national events and district and state activity as well as between partisan dynamics and national policy. Northern Democrats had to walk a perilously thin line between loyalty to the Southern party leaders and answering to their free-state constituents. If Northern Democrats sought high office, they would have to cater to the "Slave Power." Yet, if they hoped for election at home, they had to convince voters that they were not mere lackeys of the Southern grandees.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. “Fidelity and Firmness” -- 2. “Harmony, Unity, and Victory” -- 3. “One of the Most Reliable Politicians upon This Subject of Slavery” -- 4. “Pandora’s Box” -- 5. “Leave Us of the North to Fight the Great Battle” -- 6. “The Strongest Northern Man on Southern Principles” -- 7. “Let Us Stand by Our Colors” -- 8. “We Regarded You as Brothers” -- 9. “Though the Heavens Fall” -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In the decade before the Civil War, Northern Democrats, although they ostensibly represented antislavery and free-state constituencies, made possible the passage of such proslavery legislation as the Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law of the same year, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and the Lecompton Constitution of 1858. In Northern Men with Southern Loyalties, Michael Todd Landis forcefully contends that a full understanding of the Civil War and its causes is impossible without a careful examination of Northern Democrats and their proslavery sentiments and activities. He focuses on a variety of key Democratic politicians, such as Stephen Douglas, William Marcy, and Jesse Bright, to unravel the puzzle of Northern Democratic political allegiance to the South. As congressmen, state party bosses, convention wire-pullers, cabinet officials, and presidents, these men produced the legislation and policies that led to the fragmentation of the party and catastrophic disunion.Through a careful examination of correspondence, speeches, public and private utterances, memoirs, and personal anecdotes, Landis lays bare the desires and designs of Northern Democrats. He ventures into the complex realm of state politics and party mechanics, drawing connections between national events and district and state activity as well as between partisan dynamics and national policy. Northern Democrats had to walk a perilously thin line between loyalty to the Southern party leaders and answering to their free-state constituents. If Northern Democrats sought high office, they would have to cater to the "Slave Power." Yet, if they hoped for election at home, they had to convince voters that they were not mere lackeys of the Southern grandees.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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