Northern Men with Southern Loyalties
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In this deeply researched, well-written book, Michael Todd Landis offers a scathing indictment of the northern Democratic Party in the decade before the Civil War.... Northern Men with Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis should be seen as an important contribution to the vast but evolving literature on antebellum politics and the coming of the Civil War.
» Paul E. Teed, The Journal of Southern History
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. Les mer
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. -- Cornell University Press
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 344
- ISBN
- 9780801453267
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Choice Magazine 2015 Outstanding Academic Title.
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In this deeply researched, well-written book, Michael Todd Landis offers a scathing indictment of the northern Democratic Party in the decade before the Civil War.... Northern Men with Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis should be seen as an important contribution to the vast but evolving literature on antebellum politics and the coming of the Civil War.
» Paul E. Teed, The Journal of Southern History
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This is a very solidly researched, well written, and interesting account of the proslavery northern Democrats.... Landis provides our first comprehensive account of the doughfaces. But I cannot help wondering how typical his subjects were of the northern Democrats.
» Nicole Etcheson, American Historical Review
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In Northern Men with Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and theSectional Crisis, Michael Todd Landis fills a gap in the literature of the Democratic Party during the late 1840s and 1850s.
» Justene Hill, Law and History Review