Download or read book Apostle of Union written by Matthew Mason and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known today as "the other speaker at Gettysburg," Edward Everett had a distinguished and illustrative career at every level of American politics from the 1820s through the Civil War. In this new biography, Matthew Mason argues that Everett's extraordinarily well-documented career reveals a complex man whose shifting political opinions, especially on the topic of slavery, illuminate the nuances of Northern Unionism. In the case of Everett--who once pledged to march south to aid slaveholders in putting down slave insurrections--Mason explores just how complex the question of slavery was for most Northerners, who considered slavery within a larger context of competing priorities that alternately furthered or hindered antislavery actions. By charting Everett's changing stance toward slavery over time, Mason sheds new light on antebellum conservative politics, the complexities of slavery and its related issues for reform-minded Americans, and the ways in which secession turned into civil war. As Mason demonstrates, Everett's political and cultural efforts to preserve the Union, and the response to his work from citizens and politicians, help us see the coming of the Civil War as a three-sided, not just two-sided, contest.
Download or read book Edward Everett Orator and Statesman written by Paul Revere Frothingham and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from the Works of Edward Everett written by Edward Everett and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical memoir by Edward Everett and speeches on various occasions written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir by Edward Everett and speeches on various occasions written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech of the Hon Edward Everett on American Institutions written by Edward Everett and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward Everett written by Paul A. Varg and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edward Everett's career coincided with the beginning of industrialism, the coming of railroads, and a revolution in water transportation. It also coincided with the beginnings of large-scale immigration, the rapid development of urban centers, and the rise of the anti-slavery movement. These silent forces transformed society and brought about one of the most turbulent political eras in the nation's history. Divisive sectional interests, the rise of the new two-party system, and territorial expansion changed the political arena. Everett entered politics as this new era began. He was already a public man. He shone brightly as editor of the nation's first literary magazine, the North American Review, thrilled throngs with his oratory, and was accepted in the community as an intellectual. He rejected the narrow sectionalism of the New England Federalists and wholeheartedly accepted the political teachings of Edmund Burke." "His strengths on entering office were impressive. He was well informed as to the political developments in Europe, had a command of several foreign languages, rejected orthodox theology, and achieved a broad outlook--and he had a marvelously free-flowing pen. He won the hearts of young people of Boston with his Phi Beta Kappa address, which portrayed a bright and rich cultural future for the nation." "Certain points of view were already deeply ingrained. He was a nationalist, but his nationalism was not of the Fourth of July fervor variety. He dreamt that it was the destiny of the republic to demonstrate a people's representative government that could be successful. He valued the country's British heritage; more particularly its tradition of civil rights, its check and balance system, and British balance in a revolutionary age. Everett possessed three hatreds: he despised racism, he was disgusted with anti-Catholicism, and he had a dread of political demagoguery. He was soon to demonstrate one weakness: while he did not lack courage, he sometimes retreated when the going got rough." "This book examines Everett's responses to the changes going on about him. How did these changes challenge him? Democratic institutions are slow to mature. The nation was entering the modern age. A national economy was emerging that called for a stronger Union--powerful enough to solve the conflict between states' rights and greater centralization. Everett was in the forefront in supporting these changes; however, he was at times demobilized by the unsolved problem of how to free the country of slavery without destroying the Union. This weighed heavily on Everett, and caused him to be unduly cautious. The Civil War emancipated him from his dilemma that, at times, stood in the way of his assuming a stronger leadership role."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Speech of the Hon Edward Everett in the House of Representatives of the United States March 9 1926 written by Edward Everett and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oration of Edward Everett at Gettysburg Nov 19 1863 written by Edward Everett and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man Without a Country and Other Tales written by Edward Everett Hale and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by Civil War-era author Hale, including a short fantasy entitled "My Double and How He Undid Me."
Download or read book The Eloquence of Edward Everett written by Richard A. Katula and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Everett (1794-1865) was America's first Ph.D., a United States Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, Ambassador to England, President of Harvard University, Secretary of State, a United States Senator, and a Vice-Presidential candidate. In the midst of this distinguished career, he was also a famous and profound orator, delivering hundreds of orations across the nation, and at least five of the most important speeches in American history. In this book, Everett's training as an orator and his career on the public stage are reviewed in the context of his times, often referred to as the Golden Age of American oratory. Through analyses of a number of his most illustrious orations - such as the Phi Beta Kappa Society oration in 1824; his 4th of July oration at Worcester, Massachusetts; his eulogy to John Quincy Adams in 1848; his speech that saved Mount Vernon, «The Character of Washington», delivered 137 times from 1856-1860; and his Gettysburg Oration, delivered just prior to Lincoln's illustrious Gettysburg Address - Everett is seen as a transformational figure. The book concludes that while unknown to most Americans, Everett's rhetoric of idealism, optimism, sentimentality, and conciliation provided the rising nation - America - with its sense of identity and its core principles.
Download or read book How to Do it written by Edward Everett Hale and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Download or read book The Life and Letters of Edward Everett Hale written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Brick Moon and Other Stories written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coded Letters Concealed Love written by Sara Day and published by New Academia Publishing/ The Spring. This book was released on 2014 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the decades-long coded correspondence between Harriet Freeman and Edward Everett Hale.
Download or read book Remarks by Mr Edward Everett on the French Question written by Edward Everett and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Appeal of Edward Everett in Faneuil Hall 9 Jan 1865 written by Edward EVERETT and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
