[PDF] Lincoln And Missouri eBook

Author : Dennis K. Boman
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807146498

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During the Civil War, the state of Missouri presented President Abraham Lincoln, United States military commanders, and state officials with an array of complex and difficult problems. Although Missouri did not secede, a large minority of residents owned slaves, sympathized with secession, or favored the Confederacy. Many residents joined a Confederate state militia, became pro-Confederate guerrillas, or helped the cause of the South in some subversive manner. In order to subdue such disloyalty, Lincoln supported Missouri's provisional Unionist government by ordering troops into the state and approving an array of measures that ultimately infringed on the civil liberties of residents. In this thorough investigation of these policies, Dennis K. Boman reveals the difficulties that the president, military officials, and state authorities faced in trying to curb traitorous activity while upholding the spirit of the United States Constitution. Boman explains that despite Lincoln's desire to disentangle himself from Missouri policy matters, he was never able to do so. Lincoln's challenge in Missouri continued even after the United States Army defeated the state's Confederate militia. Attention quickly turned to preventing Confederate guerrillas from attacking Missouri's railway system and from ruthlessly murdering, pillaging, and terrorizing loyal inhabitants. Eventually military officials established tribunals to prosecute captured insurgents. In his role as commander-in-chief, Lincoln oversaw these tribunals and worked with Missouri governor Hamilton R. Gamble in establishing additional policies to repress acts of subversion while simultaneously protecting constitutional rights -- an incredibly difficult balancing act. For example, while supporting the suppression of disloyal newspapers and the arrest of persons suspected of aiding the enemy, Lincoln repealed orders violating property rights when they conflicted with federal law. While mitigating the severity of sentences handed down by military courts, Boman shows, Lincoln advocated requiring voters and officeholders to take loyalty oaths and countenanced the summary execution of guerrillas captured with weapons in the field. One of the first books to explore Lincoln's role in dealing with an extensive guerrilla insurgency, Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri illustrates the difficulty of suppressing dissent while upholding the Constitution, a feat as complicated during the Civil War as it is for the War on Terror.

Author : Walter Barlow Stevens
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781333935214

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Excerpt from Lincoln and Missouri Justice Taney had handed down the Dred Scott decision of 125 pages. The gist was that the Missouri Compromise was naught. The political Shibboleth of more than a third of a century had vanished. It was unconstitutional. Congress had not prohibited Slavery in the territories, as it supposed it had. The leading lawyer in the case for Dred Scott, the St. Louis slave who looked like an African king, had been Montgomery Blair the older brother of Frank Blair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2018-07-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781723525346

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Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise is a classic speech by Abraham Lincoln.

Author : William C. Harris
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 070062015X

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Adopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. By describing Lincoln's rise from obscurity to the presidency, William Harris shows that Lincoln's road to political success was far from easy-and that his reaction to events wasn't always wise or his racial attitudes free of prejudice. Although most scholars have labeled Lincoln a moderate, Harris reveals that he was by his own admission a conservative who revered the Founders and advocated "adherence to the old and tried." By emphasizing the conservative bent that guided Lincoln's political evolution-his background as a Henry Clay Whig, his rural ties, his cautious nature, and the racial and political realities of central Illinois-Harris provides fresh insight into Lincoln's political ideas and activities and portrays him as morally opposed to slavery but fundamentally conservative in his political strategy against it. Interweaving aspects of Lincoln's life and character that were an integral part of his rise to prominence, Harris provides in-depth coverage of Lincoln's controversial term in Congress, his re-emergence as the leader of the antislavery coalition in Illinois, and his Senate campaign against Stephen A.Douglas. He particularly describes how Lincoln organized the antislavery coalition into the Republican Party while retaining the support of its diverse elements, and sheds new light on Lincoln's ongoing efforts to bring Know Nothing nativists into the coalition without alienating ethnic groups. He also provides new information and analysis regarding Lincoln's nomination and election to the presidency, the selection of his cabinet, and his important role as president-elect during the secession crisis of 1860-1861. Challenging prevailing views, Harris portrays Lincoln as increasingly driven not so much by his own ambitions as by his antislavery sentiments and his fear for the republic in the hands of Douglas Democrats, and he shows how the unique political skills Lincoln developed in Illinois shaped his wartime leadership abilities. By doing so, he opens a window on his political ideas and influences and offers a fresh understanding of this complex figure.

Author : Walter Barlow Stevens
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2016-05-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781356739097

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Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Missouri
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Concerns demand by Missouri Radicals for removal of Gen. John M. Schofield. The Civil War in Missouri was a continuation of the bitter pre-War battles between Jayhawkers and Border Ruffians over the Kansas question. Competing Unionist factions - differing over the status of slavery in Missouri - sorely vexed Lincoln. In 1863 he sought to end this strife by naming Schofield as Military Commander of Missouri, but this angered the Missouri Radicals. Lincoln's letter seeks to placate Charles Drake, leader of the Radicals, and his colleagues. Glover's speech chastises the 'Charcoals, ' as the immediate emancipationists were called, for their attacks upon the president.