Author: John Archibald Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Letter from Hon. John A. Campbell, to Senator Bayard, of Delaware, Upon the Powers of Congress Over the Returns from Electors of President and Vice-President
John Archibald Campbell
Author: Robert Saunders
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The first full biography of the southern U.S. Supreme Court justice who championed both the U.S. Constitution and states’ rights The life of John Archibald Campbell reflects nearly every major development of 19th-century American history. He participated either directly or indirectly in events ranging from the Indian removal process of the 1830s, to sectionalism and the Civil War, to Reconstruction and redemption. Although not a defender of slavery, he feared that abrupt abolition would produce severe economic and social dislocation. He urged southerners to reform their labor system and to prepare for the eventual abolition of slavery. In the early 1850s he proposed a series of reforms to strengthen slave families and to educate the slaves to prepare them for assimilation into society as productive citizens. These views distinguished him from many southerners who steadfastly maintained the sanctity of the peculiar institution. Born and schooled in Georgia, Campbell moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1830s, where he joined a successful law practice. He served in the Alabama legislature for a brief period and then moved with his family to Mobile to establish a law practice. In 1853 Campbell was appointed an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His concurring opinion in the Dred Scott case in 1857 derived not from the standpoint of protecting slavery but from an attempt to return political power to the states. As the sectional crisis gathered heat, Campbell counseled moderation. He became widely detested in the North because of his defense of states’ rights, and he was distrusted in the South because of his moderate views on slavery and secession. In May 1861 Campbell resigned from the Court and later became the Confederacy's assistant secretary of war. After the war, Campbell moved his law practice to New Orleans. Upon his death in 1889, memorial speakers in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans recognized him as one of the nation's most gifted lawyers and praised his vast learning and mastery of both the common law and the civil law. In this first full biography of Campbell, Robert Saunders, Jr., reveals the prevalence of anti-secession views prior to the Civil War and covers both the judicial aspects and the political history of this crucial period in southern history.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The first full biography of the southern U.S. Supreme Court justice who championed both the U.S. Constitution and states’ rights The life of John Archibald Campbell reflects nearly every major development of 19th-century American history. He participated either directly or indirectly in events ranging from the Indian removal process of the 1830s, to sectionalism and the Civil War, to Reconstruction and redemption. Although not a defender of slavery, he feared that abrupt abolition would produce severe economic and social dislocation. He urged southerners to reform their labor system and to prepare for the eventual abolition of slavery. In the early 1850s he proposed a series of reforms to strengthen slave families and to educate the slaves to prepare them for assimilation into society as productive citizens. These views distinguished him from many southerners who steadfastly maintained the sanctity of the peculiar institution. Born and schooled in Georgia, Campbell moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1830s, where he joined a successful law practice. He served in the Alabama legislature for a brief period and then moved with his family to Mobile to establish a law practice. In 1853 Campbell was appointed an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His concurring opinion in the Dred Scott case in 1857 derived not from the standpoint of protecting slavery but from an attempt to return political power to the states. As the sectional crisis gathered heat, Campbell counseled moderation. He became widely detested in the North because of his defense of states’ rights, and he was distrusted in the South because of his moderate views on slavery and secession. In May 1861 Campbell resigned from the Court and later became the Confederacy's assistant secretary of war. After the war, Campbell moved his law practice to New Orleans. Upon his death in 1889, memorial speakers in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans recognized him as one of the nation's most gifted lawyers and praised his vast learning and mastery of both the common law and the civil law. In this first full biography of Campbell, Robert Saunders, Jr., reveals the prevalence of anti-secession views prior to the Civil War and covers both the judicial aspects and the political history of this crucial period in southern history.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Parliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: Asher Crosby Hinds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Harper's Weekly
Author: John Bonner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 943
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 943
Book Description
Democracy in Delaware
Author: Carol E. Hoffecker
Publisher: Cedar Tree Publishing
ISBN: 9781892142238
Category : Delaware
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Cedar Tree Publishing
ISBN: 9781892142238
Category : Delaware
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
West Virginia Blue Book
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description