Author: Alexander Woodruff BUEL
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Speech of Hon. Alex. W. Buel, in Defence of the Constitution and the Union
Author: Alexander Woodruff BUEL
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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A Strife of Tongues
Author: Stephen E. Maizlish
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that "words become things." Indeed, in politics—then, as now—rhetoric makes reality. But while the legislative maneuvering, factional alignments, and specific measures of the Compromise of 1850 have been exhaustively studied, much of the language of the debate, where underlying beliefs and assumptions were revealed, has been neglected. The Compromise of 1850 attempted to defuse confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War—which would be free, which would allow slavery, and how the Fugitive Slave Law would be enacted. A Strife of Tongues tells the cultural and intellectual history of this pivotal political event through the lens of language, revealing the complex context of northern and southern ideological opposition within which the Civil War occurred a decade later. Deftly drawing on extensive records, from public discourse to private letters, Stephen Maizlish animates the most famous political characters of the age in their own words. This novel account reveals a telling irony—that the Compromise debates of 1850 only made obvious the hardening of sectional division of ideology, which led to a breakdown in the spirit of compromise in the antebellum period and laid the foundations of the U.S. Civil War.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that "words become things." Indeed, in politics—then, as now—rhetoric makes reality. But while the legislative maneuvering, factional alignments, and specific measures of the Compromise of 1850 have been exhaustively studied, much of the language of the debate, where underlying beliefs and assumptions were revealed, has been neglected. The Compromise of 1850 attempted to defuse confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War—which would be free, which would allow slavery, and how the Fugitive Slave Law would be enacted. A Strife of Tongues tells the cultural and intellectual history of this pivotal political event through the lens of language, revealing the complex context of northern and southern ideological opposition within which the Civil War occurred a decade later. Deftly drawing on extensive records, from public discourse to private letters, Stephen Maizlish animates the most famous political characters of the age in their own words. This novel account reveals a telling irony—that the Compromise debates of 1850 only made obvious the hardening of sectional division of ideology, which led to a breakdown in the spirit of compromise in the antebellum period and laid the foundations of the U.S. Civil War.
Speech of Hon. Alex. W. Buel, in Defence of the Constitution and the Union
Author: Alexander Woodruff Buel
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047422
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047422
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Political Parties in Michigan, 1837-1860
Author: Floyd Benjamin Streeter
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Michigan Historical Publications. University Series
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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