Download or read book James Buchanan and His Cabinet on the Eve of Secession written by Philip G. Auchampaugh and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Buchanan and His Cabinet on the Eve of Secession written by Philip G. Auchampaugh and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book JAMES BUCHANAN AND HIS CABINET ON THE EVE OF SECESSION written by PHILIP GERALD. AUCHAMPAUGH and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Buchanan and His Cabinet on the Eve of Succession written by Phil Auchampaugn and published by . This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Buchanan s Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion written by James Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Buchanan s Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion By J Buchanan written by James BUCHANAN (President of the United States of America.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Buchanans Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion written by Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Buchanan s Administration written by James Buchanan and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical vindication of the policy of the Buchanan administration during the last months of his term, this book is an important source for understanding the political events leading to the secession and the Civil War. Throughout his administration, Buchanan was constantly plagued with the issues of slavery, even though the existence of domestic slavery in the South was recognized and protected by the Constitution of the United States. This book details the rising conflict within the nation as Southern slave holding states argued with Northern abolitionists and Anti-Slavery societies as to whether or not slavery should continue to flourish in the United States.
Download or read book The Works of James Buchanan written by James Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Presidency of James Buchanan written by Elbert B. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers conclusions that are very different from most of the traditional historical interpretations of the Buchanan presidency. Historians have either condemned Buchanan for weakness and vacillation or portrayed him as a president dedicated to peace who did everything constitutionally possible to avoid war. Under the scrutiny of Elbert B. Smith, Buchanan emerges as a strong figure who made vital contributions not to peace but to the accelerating animosities that produced the war. "Historians who have considered the Civil War a necessary and justifiable price for the destruction of slavery should feel a debt to James Buchanan," Smith writes. "Those who think the war could and should have been avoided owe him nothing." Most of the accounts of the era have concentrated on the Dred Scott Case, Bleeding Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown, the rise of the Republicans and the disintegration of the Democrats, the election of 1860, and the bitter quarrels over slavery extension occasioned by these events. Buchanan has often appeared on a stage occupied by more important actors. Whether or not the war was already inevitable by March, 1857, cannot be proved. That a subsequent series of emotion-packed events filled both North and South with rage and fear, triggering secession and the war, is undebatable. It is Smith's theory that Buchanan, in leading the United States through these fateful years, added much to the war spirit that developed in both sections. Driven by affection and sympathy for the Southerners, he tried to satisfy their demands for slavery rights in the territories. This aroused bitter anti-South feelings throughout the North, which foiled his efforts and further convinced the Southerners that they could no longer have their way inside the Union. The one event that finally triggered the Southern secession was the election of a Republican president, and Buchanan's agreement with the Southern demands and his personal hatred for Stephen A. Douglas did much to accomplish this. Covering the most controversial period in American history, Smith presents important new evaluations for the consideration of students of both the Civil War and the presidency.
Download or read book The Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion written by James Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Buchanan and the Secession Crisis 1860 1861 written by Richard Herbert Haunton and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Buchanan written by Megan M. Gunderson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography introduces readers to James Buchanan including his early political career and key events from Buchanan's administration including the Dred Scott case and the secession of seven Southern states prior to the American Civil War. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Life of James Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States written by George Ticknor Curtis and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. 1841--1842. DEATH OF PSESTDENT HAKMSOX--KXEACH BETWEEN WSSKNT TTtEB JL3TD THE WHIGS TTLEES VETOES Btchjlxix S BCTLT TO CLXI OB THE VETO POWER--HIS OFTOSmON TO THE KiHTW ACT OT lSil. EARELY has a party in a constitutional government come into power with apparently a better prospect of doing good to their country, and retaining their hold upon it, than did the "Whigs under President Harrison. This worthy man, who was by no means a statesman of the first or even of the second order, was a person of firir intelligence, of entire honesty of character, and was moderately well tasght in the principles of the Constitution. Almost his first act. after his election, was to tender the chief place in his cabinet to Mr. Webster. This was done with the concurrence of Mr. Clay, whom it ssited to remain in the Senate, as its leader, and who expected to cany a new national bank, as a remedy for the exiting disordered condition of the currency. But General Harrison died on the day which completed the first month of his oSeial term. His successor. John Tyler, oi Virginia, had been chosen as Vice President, with very little attention to his political opinions on the part of those who selected him for that position, or cf those who voted for him. "When he assumed the duties of the Presidency, he requested the members cf General Harrison's cabinet to remain in office. They were all of that political school which regarded a national lank of some kind as a necessity, and held it to be an instrnn: er.t of Government which Corress might constitutionally create. President Harrison and his ofikial advisers had deemed it necessary to convene an extra session of Congress; and his proclamation had summoned it for the 31st of May. When that day...
Download or read book James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War written by John W. Quist and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution of the Union had been averted and the Democratic Party maintained control of the federal government, but the nation watched to see if Pennsylvania's first president could make good on his promise to calm sectional tensions. Despite Buchanan's central role in a crucial hour in U.S. history, few presidents have been more ignored by historians. In assembling the essays for this volume, Michael Birkner and John Quist have asked leading scholars to reconsider whether Buchanan’s failures stemmed from his own mistakes or from circumstances that no president could have overcome. Buchanan's dealings with Utah shed light on his handling of the secession crisis. His approach to Dred Scott reinforces the image of a president whose doughface views were less a matter of hypocrisy than a thorough identification with southern interests. Essays on the secession crisis provide fodder for debate about the strengths and limitations of presidential authority in an existential moment for the young nation. Although the essays in this collection offer widely differing interpretations of Buchanan's presidency, they all grapple honestly with the complexities of the issues faced by the man who sat in the White House prior to the towering figure of Lincoln, and contribute to a deeper understanding of a turbulent and formative era.
Download or read book Reader s Guide to American History written by Peter J. Parish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.
Download or read book Lincoln President Elect written by Harold Holzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency—there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states, even at the cost of civil war. Abraham Lincoln first demonstrated his determination and leadership in the Great Secession Winter—the four months between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861—when he rejected compromises urged on him by Republicans and Democrats, Northerners and Southerners, that might have preserved the Union a little longer but would have enshrined slavery for generations. Though Lincoln has been criticized by many historians for failing to appreciate the severity of the secession crisis that greeted his victory, Harold Holzer shows that the presidentelect waged a shrewd and complex campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery while vainly trying to limit secession to a few Deep South states. During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country had two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed (the incumbent who refused to act). Through limited, brilliantly timed and crafted public statements, determined private letters, tough political pressure, and personal persuasion, Lincoln guaranteed the integrity of the American political process of majority rule, sounded the death knell of slavery, and transformed not only his own image but that of the presidency, even while making inevitable the war that would be necessary to make these achievements permanent. Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership. Holzer recasts Lincoln from an isolated prairie politician yet to establish his greatness, to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment when allegiance to the founding credo "all men are created equal" might well have been sacrificed.
