To Govern the Devil in Hell : : The Political Crisis of Territorial Kansas / / Pearl Ponce.
One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of "Bleeding Kansas" and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. Although ample attention has been devoted to understanding why territorial violenc...
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Ponce, Pearl, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut To Govern the Devil in Hell : The Political Crisis of Territorial Kansas / Pearl Ponce. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021] ©2014 1 online resource (292 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1-Jupiter's Gift: The Creation of Kansas Territory -- 2-Territorial Politics and the Struggle for Party Supremacy, 1854-1855 -- 3-Kansas in 1856: The Escalating Conflict -- 4-Congress and the Kansas Issue in 1856 -- 5-The 1856 Presidential Campaign and Kansas as a Party Issue -- 6-Pledges and Principles: Buchanan, Walker, and Kansas in 1857 -- 7-"The Noise of Democracy": The Struggle over the Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas -- Conclusion-"To the Stars through Difficulty" -- Appendix A-Kansas-Nebraska Vote in the Senate (March 3, 1854) -- Appendix B-Senate Results by Section and Part -- Appendix C-Final Kansas-Nebraska Vote in the House (May 22, 1854) -- Appendix D-House Results by Section and Party -- Appendix E-House Results by State -- Appendix F -Kansas Contested Delegate Election: Comparison of Vote to Oust Whitfield and to Seat Reeder (August 4, 1856) with Vote to Authorize a Special Investigating Committee (March 19, 1856 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of "Bleeding Kansas" and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. Although ample attention has been devoted to understanding why territorial violence broke out in Kansas in 1856, of equal concern but less illuminated is the question of why government, both local and national, allowed the violence to continue unstanched for so long. This question is fundamentally about governance-its existence, exercise, limits, and continuance-and its study has ramifications for understanding both Kansas events and why the American experiment in government failed in 1861. In addition, the book also sheds light on the nature of democracy, the challenges of implanting it in distant environs, the necessity of cooperation at the various levels of government, and the value of strong leadership. To Govern the Devil in Hell uses the prism of governance to investigate what went wrong in territorial Kansas. From the first elections in late 1854 and early 1855, local government was tarnished with cries of illegitimacy that territorial officials could not ameliorate. Soon after, a shadow government was created which further impeded local management of territorial challenges. Ultimately, this book addresses why Presidents Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan failed to act, what hindered Congress from stepping into the void, and why and how the lack of effective governance harmed Kansas and later the United States. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Midwest. Political Science & Political History. U.S. History. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). bisacsh Bleeding Kansas, American Civil War, President Franklin Pierce, President James Buchanan. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758034 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501758034 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501758034/original |
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Ponce, Pearl, Ponce, Pearl, To Govern the Devil in Hell : The Political Crisis of Territorial Kansas / Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1-Jupiter's Gift: The Creation of Kansas Territory -- 2-Territorial Politics and the Struggle for Party Supremacy, 1854-1855 -- 3-Kansas in 1856: The Escalating Conflict -- 4-Congress and the Kansas Issue in 1856 -- 5-The 1856 Presidential Campaign and Kansas as a Party Issue -- 6-Pledges and Principles: Buchanan, Walker, and Kansas in 1857 -- 7-"The Noise of Democracy": The Struggle over the Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas -- Conclusion-"To the Stars through Difficulty" -- Appendix A-Kansas-Nebraska Vote in the Senate (March 3, 1854) -- Appendix B-Senate Results by Section and Part -- Appendix C-Final Kansas-Nebraska Vote in the House (May 22, 1854) -- Appendix D-House Results by Section and Party -- Appendix E-House Results by State -- Appendix F -Kansas Contested Delegate Election: Comparison of Vote to Oust Whitfield and to Seat Reeder (August 4, 1856) with Vote to Authorize a Special Investigating Committee (March 19, 1856 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1-Jupiter's Gift: The Creation of Kansas Territory -- 2-Territorial Politics and the Struggle for Party Supremacy, 1854-1855 -- 3-Kansas in 1856: The Escalating Conflict -- 4-Congress and the Kansas Issue in 1856 -- 5-The 1856 Presidential Campaign and Kansas as a Party Issue -- 6-Pledges and Principles: Buchanan, Walker, and Kansas in 1857 -- 7-"The Noise of Democracy": The Struggle over the Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas -- Conclusion-"To the Stars through Difficulty" -- Appendix A-Kansas-Nebraska Vote in the Senate (March 3, 1854) -- Appendix B-Senate Results by Section and Part -- Appendix C-Final Kansas-Nebraska Vote in the House (May 22, 1854) -- Appendix D-House Results by Section and Party -- Appendix E-House Results by State -- Appendix F -Kansas Contested Delegate Election: Comparison of Vote to Oust Whitfield and to Seat Reeder (August 4, 1856) with Vote to Authorize a Special Investigating Committee (March 19, 1856 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1-Jupiter's Gift: The Creation of Kansas Territory -- 2-Territorial Politics and the Struggle for Party Supremacy, 1854-1855 -- 3-Kansas in 1856: The Escalating Conflict -- 4-Congress and the Kansas Issue in 1856 -- 5-The 1856 Presidential Campaign and Kansas as a Party Issue -- 6-Pledges and Principles: Buchanan, Walker, and Kansas in 1857 -- 7-"The Noise of Democracy": The Struggle over the Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas -- Conclusion-"To the Stars through Difficulty" -- Appendix A-Kansas-Nebraska Vote in the Senate (March 3, 1854) -- Appendix B-Senate Results by Section and Part -- Appendix C-Final Kansas-Nebraska Vote in the House (May 22, 1854) -- Appendix D-House Results by Section and Party -- Appendix E-House Results by State -- Appendix F -Kansas Contested Delegate Election: Comparison of Vote to Oust Whitfield and to Seat Reeder (August 4, 1856) with Vote to Authorize a Special Investigating Committee (March 19, 1856 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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