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Author: Vermont Historical Society
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Author: Vermont Historical Society
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Author: Vermont Historical Society
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483866898
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Excerpt from Addresses Delivered Before the Vermont Historical Society: In the Representatives' Hall, Montpelier, October 16, 1866 The quality of mind which we call curiosity, is one whence Springs many of our greatest achievements. It is the search on which the visible and apparent present sends the mind back over the mighty past for the causes and antecedents that have, through chan nels and by processes more or less direct, but always logical, produced the results which engage our wonder, our admiration, or our dislike, as the case may be. The fuel it has furnished has kindled the fires of all invention, and has brought to their present wonderful and almost miraculous state of advancement, many of those sciences and arts most useful, practically, to men. And it has no less operated beneficially in presenting to each succeeding age and generation, the lives and peculiarities of notable men of times past, whose characters have in greater or less degree impressed themselves upon the growth of society, and so transfused them into the very life of after times. From fountains thus unsealed, the historian deduces the principles of moral and political economies; and the just ambition of those who aspire to greatness, beholds the processes and the causes - always in the main constant - which have led men to success, or driven them to failure. 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.
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Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020245138
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Languages : en
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This book is a collection of speeches delivered at the annual meeting of the Vermont Historical Society in 1866. The speeches cover a wide range of topics, including Vermont history, politics, and culture, and offer fascinating insights into the events and issues of the day. The authors of the speeches, who are not named, were prominent figures in Vermont society and politics. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of Vermont or the United States during the mid-19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Marcus Davis Gilman
Publisher: Burlington : Free Press association
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: Astor Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Author: Forrest A. Nabors
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273912
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 419
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On December 4, 1865, members of the 39th United States Congress walked into the Capitol Building to begin their first session after the end of the Civil War. They understood their responsibility to put the nation back on the path established by the American Founding Fathers. The moment when the Republicans in the Reconstruction Congress remade the nation and renewed the law is in a class of rare events. The Civil War should be seen in this light. In From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction, Forrest A. Nabors shows that the ultimate goal of the Republican Party, the war, and Reconstruction was the same. This goal was to preserve and advance republicanism as the American founders understood it, against its natural, existential enemy: oligarchy. The principle of natural equality justified American republicanism and required abolition and equal citizenship. Likewise, slavery and discrimination on the basis of color stand on the competing moral foundation of oligarchy, the principle of natural inequality, which requires ranks. The effect of slavery and the division of the nation into two “opposite systems of civilization” are causally linked. Charles Devens, a lawyer who served as a general in the Union Army, and his contemporaries understood that slavery’s existence transformed the character of political society. One of those dramatic effects was the increased power of slaveowners over those who did not have slaves. When the slave state constitutions enumerated slaves in apportioning representation using the federal three-fifths ratio or by other formulae, intra-state sections where slaves were concentrated would receive a substantial grant of political power for slave ownership. In contrast, low slave-owning sections of the state would lose political representation and political influence over the state. This contributed to the non-slaveholders’ loss of political liberty in the slave states and provided a direct means by which the slaveholders acquired and maintained their rule over non-slaveholders. This book presents a shared analysis of the slave South, synthesized from the writings and speeches of the Republicans who served in the Thirty-Eighth, Thirty-Ninth or Fortieth Congress from 1863-1869. The account draws from their writings and speeches dated before, during, and after their service in Congress. Nabors shows how the Republican majority, charged with the responsibility of reconstructing the South, understood the South. Republicans in Congress were generally united around the fundamental problem and goal of Reconstruction. They regarded their work in the same way as they regarded the work of the American founders. Both they and the founders were engaged in regime change, from monarchy in the one case, and from oligarchy in the other, to republicanism. The insurrectionary states’ governments had to be reconstructed at their foundations, from oligarchic to republican. The sharp differences within Congress pertained to how to achieve that higher goal.
Author: Grant Brodrecht
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823279928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
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“A welcome contribution to the growing literature on religion during the Civil War era.” —Civil War News Northern evangelicals’ love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves’ emancipation—but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for a Christian America, northern evangelicals contributed to a Reconstruction that failed to ensure the ex-slaves’ full freedom and equality as Americans. By examining Civil War-era Protestantism in terms of the Union, Grant R. Brodrecht adds to the understanding of northern motivation and the history that followed the war. Our Country contends that non-radical Protestants consistently subordinated concern for racial justice for what they perceived to be the greater good. Mainstream evangelicals did not enter Reconstruction with the primary aim of achieving racial justice. Rather they expected to see the emergence of a speedily restored, prosperous, and culturally homogenous Union, a Union strengthened by God through the defeat of secession and the removal of slavery as secession’s cause. Brodrecht addresses this so-called “proprietary” regard for Christian America, within the context of crises surrounding the Union’s existence and its nature from the Civil War to the 1880s. Including sources from major Protestant denominations, the book rests on a selection of sermons, denominational newspapers and journals, autobiographies, archival personal papers of several individuals, and the published and unpublished papers of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. The author examines these sources as they address the period’s evangelical sense of responsibility for America, while keyed to issues of national and presidential politics.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: New Hampshire State Library
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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