Crisis of the house divided : an interpretation of the issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates /
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Garden City, New York :
Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1959.
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| Series: | Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
U.S. presidential library. |
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Introductory. 1958: The crisis in historical judgment ; 1858: Lincoln versus Douglas ; The alternatives
- part II. The case for Douglas. Slavery ; Manifest destiny ; The repeal of the Missouri Compromise I. The legal power and practical impotence of federal prohibitions of slavery in the territories ; The repeal of the Missouri Compromise II. Did the Comprise of 1850 "supersede" the Missouri Compromise ; The repeal of the Missouri Compromise III. What Douglas intended on January 4, 1854 ; The repeal of the Missouri Compromise IV. Tragedy. The extreme crush the mean
- part III. The political philosophy of a young Whig. The teaching concerning political salvation ; The teaching concerning political moderation
- part IV. The case for Lincoln. The legal tendency toward slavery expansion ; The political tendency toward slavery expansion ; The intrinsic evil of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise ; The universal meaning of the Declaration of Independence ; The form and substance of political freedom in the modern world ; Popular sovereignty: true and false ; The meaning of equality: abstract and practical ; The "natural limits" of slavery expansion ; Did the Republicans abandon Lincoln's principles after the election of 1860? ; The end of Manifest Destiny
- Appendix I. Some of the historical background to the Lincoln-Douglas debates
- Appendix II. Some notes on the Dred Scott decision.