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The Cacophony of Politics - Northern Democrats and the American Civil War (Hardcover)
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The Cacophony of Politics - Northern Democrats and the American Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
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The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic
Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War.
A comprehensive overview, this book reveals the myriad
complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern
states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible
Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
The party's famous slogan "The Union as it was, the Constitution as
it is" was meant to have broad appeal and promote solidarity among
Northern Democrats by invoking their core ideological commitments
to nationalism, law and order, tradition, and strict construction.
But, as J. Matthew Gallman shows, the slogan was a poor reflection
of the volatile, fluid, messy, and improvisational reality of
political life for men and women, across the public and private
spheres. Democrats experienced the war as a cascading series of
dilemmas, for which their slogan did not always offer guidance or
resolution. Offering a definitive account of the Democratic Party
in the North, The Cacophony of Politics shows the limits of
ideology and the ways the Civil War-and the nature of
nineteenth-century political culture-confounded the Democrats'
self-image and exacerbated their divisions, especially over the
central issue of slavery.
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