The Saints Are Marching On, and On, and On…
A review of Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North by Jennifer L. Weber (Oxford University Press, 2007). They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case it… »
Who Won the Webster-Hayne Debate of 1830?
The dominant historical opinion of the famous debate between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Young Hayne of South Carolina which took place in the United States Senate in 1830 has long been that Webster… »
A Bostonian on the Causes of the War, Part IV
Part IV (Final) from a section of Dr. Scott Trask’s work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives. Part I. Part II. Part III. Massachusetts’ Politics It is one of the perils and paradoxes of democracy that… »
A Bostonian on the Causes of the War, Part III
Part III from a section of Dr. Scott Trask’s work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives. Part I. Part II. Warnings of the Wrath to Come Southerners were by no means alone in deprecating the antislavery… »
A Bostonian on the Causes of the War, Part II
Part II from a section of Dr. Scott Trask’s work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives. Part I. Historical Survey Lunt believed that the celebrated Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which prohibited slavery in the territories north… »
A Bostonian on the Causes of the War, Part I
Part I from a section of Dr. Scott Trask’s work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives. [The extent and respectability of Northern opposition to Lincoln and his war is one of the best kept secrets of… »
