The Peaceable Americans of 1860-1861 : : A Study in Public Opinion / / Mary Scrugham.

Deals with the pre-Civil War era in Kentucky and their unique position from the center of the nation and their calling for a National Constitutional Convention to settle the dispute.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1921]
©1921
Year of Publication:1921
Language:English
Series:Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 219
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • CHAPTER I. AMERICAN IDEAS IN REGARD TO THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY ON THE EVE OF CIVIL WAR
  • CHAPTER II. THE NATIONALISTIC BASIS OF NEUTRALITY
  • CHAPTER III. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1860
  • CHAPTER IV. GOVERNMENT OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE
  • CHAPTER V. THE POLITICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRING AT SUMTER
  • CHAPTER VI. KENTUCKY'S DECISION