Citizen LincolnNova Publishers, 2004 - 229 Seiten In modern times, some critics have belittled Abraham Lincoln's antislavery resolve as shallow. Some have portrayed him as a passive president, waiting upon the bold initiatives of others. 'Citizen Lincoln' regards him differently. First, it portrays Lincoln's animus against slavery as rooted in the highest ideals of the American Revolution, which he saw as being corrupted in his own time. Second, it analyses Lincoln's supposed 'passivity' as more aptly defined as wise caution. Lincoln learned as a legislator, first in Illinois and later in the United States Congress, that bold initiatives often backfire and fail to fulfil original intentions. In the state legislature, Lincoln supported a dramatic internal-improvements project that collapsed in the midst of a national depression. Lincoln also boldly opposed the Mexican War in Congress, only to see his cause evaporate as soon as a peace treaty was drafted with Mexico. In both instances, his timing was faulty. He had rushed into taking rigid policy positions when greater caution would have reaped better results. But in both instances, he learned lessons that would hold him in good stead later. Lincoln as president was wisely cautious, knowing that bold action could only disrupt the delicate coalition that kept the Union cause moving forward to victory. Harriet Beecher Stowe described Lincoln's unique strength as "swaying to every influence, yielding on this side and on that to popular needs, yet tenaciously and inflexibly bound to carry its great end". She wisely added that no other kind of strength could have seen the nation through the worst trial in its history. In filling this role, Abraham Lincoln fulfilled that which he had long regarded as his personal mission within the larger context of his nation's providential destiny. |
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... south . When elected , the president becomes the president of all the people ' , not just those of his political party . Since the president acts as America's commander in chief , the majority of the presidents of the United States have ...
... south . When elected , the president becomes the president of all the people ' , not just those of his political party . Since the president acts as America's commander in chief , the majority of the presidents of the United States have ...
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... South . How can he even sleep with the shades of thousands he has consigned to a bloody death darkening his soul ? " Diary entry of a young Louisiana girl ( Kate Stone ) , October 1 , 1862 . [ As quoted in Michael Davis , The Image of ...
... South . How can he even sleep with the shades of thousands he has consigned to a bloody death darkening his soul ? " Diary entry of a young Louisiana girl ( Kate Stone ) , October 1 , 1862 . [ As quoted in Michael Davis , The Image of ...
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... South , shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong , impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God . " Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges of Frankfort , Kentucky , April 4 ...
... South , shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong , impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God . " Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges of Frankfort , Kentucky , April 4 ...
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... South . " 17 The anti - Lincoln tradition having its origins in the post - Confederate South has been supplemented in modern times by disillusioned African Americans who fault Lincoln for not having been committed enough to the ...
... South . " 17 The anti - Lincoln tradition having its origins in the post - Confederate South has been supplemented in modern times by disillusioned African Americans who fault Lincoln for not having been committed enough to the ...
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... south fork of Nolin Creek in the state of Kentucky . He was the second child , his sister having been born several years before . Abraham was named after his grandfather , who had been killed in an Indian attack in 1786. As his ...
... south fork of Nolin Creek in the state of Kentucky . He was the second child , his sister having been born several years before . Abraham was named after his grandfather , who had been killed in an Indian attack in 1786. As his ...
Inhalt
Quincy | 114 |
Alton | 115 |
Illinois Reelects Douglas | 118 |
Campaign and the Crisis | 119 |
Waiting in the Wings | 122 |
The Presidential Nomination | 124 |
The Election | 126 |
A Mandate for Limited Change | 129 |
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Elected by the People | 29 |
New Challenges | 33 |
Young Lincoln on Slavery and Race | 37 |
Lincoln and Women | 39 |
Lawyer Lincolns Congressional Ambitions | 45 |
Frustrated Ambitions | 53 |
The Presidential Campaign of 1848 | 57 |
Lincoln Takes an Antislavery Stand | 65 |
California Gold Radicalizes American Politics | 67 |
Out of Office | 68 |
Slavery and Union | 70 |
Deep Cogitation | 73 |
The KansasNebraska Act | 81 |
Lincoln Opposes Calhoun | 84 |
Lincoln Challenges Douglas | 88 |
A Whig in Search of a New Party | 90 |
Somebody Named Lincoln | 95 |
The Dred Scott Decision | 96 |
The Lecompton Constitution | 99 |
Challenging Douglass Reelection | 100 |
Ottawa | 104 |
Freeport | 105 |
Jonesboro | 106 |
Charleston | 109 |
Galesburg | 111 |
Abstractions to Die For | 132 |
Lincoln Goes to Washington | 135 |
Waiting for War | 139 |
Responsibility for the Apocalypse | 143 |
Herding Cats | 147 |
Preserver Protector and Defender | 149 |
The Politics of Union | 152 |
Lincolns Gift of Detachment | 155 |
Lincoln and McClellan | 157 |
The Great Emancipator? | 162 |
The Cautious Emancipator | 166 |
Waiting and Preparing for the Backlash | 170 |
Antietams Aftermath | 172 |
A Union Worth Saving | 177 |
From Vallandigham to Gettysburg | 178 |
Turning Grant Loose | 182 |
Lincolns PreElection Political Arena | 185 |
Mr Lincolns Treachery | 187 |
A Momentum Toward Victory | 192 |
End Game | 196 |
Celebration and Tragedy | 200 |
Now He Belongs to the Ages | 205 |
A Man of Destiny | 209 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 220 |
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Seite xix - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...
Seite 144 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Seite 92 - I am not a Know-nothing; that is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes...
Seite 184 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.
Seite xi - Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into actual Service of the United States...
Seite 115 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all ; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Seite 171 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do that; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Seite 75 - Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client. An exorbitant fee should never be claimed. As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.
Seite 37 - I know that the great volcano at Washington, aroused and directed by the evil spirit that reigns there, is belching forth the lava of political corruption in a current broad and deep, which is sweeping with frightful velocity over the whole length and breadth of the land...