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Parties Politics Sectional Conflict - Tennessee 1832-1861 (Paperback, 3rd Ed.)
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Parties Politics Sectional Conflict - Tennessee 1832-1861 (Paperback, 3rd Ed.)
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In this thought-provoking study, Jonathan M. Atkins provides a
fresh look at the partisan ideological battles that marked the
political culture of antebellum Tennessee. He argues that the
legacy of party politics was a key factor in shaping Tennessee's
hesitant course during the crisis of Union in 1860-61. Between the
Jacksonian era and the outbreak of the Civil War, Atkins
demonstrates, the competition between Democrats and Whigs in
Tennessee was as heated as any in the country. The conflict
centered largely on differing conceptions of republican liberty and
each party's contention that the other posed a serious threat to
that liberty. As the slavery question pushed to the forefront of
national politics, Tennessee's parties absorbed the issue into the
partisan tumult that already existed. Both parties pledged to
defend southern interests while preserving the integrity of the
Union. Appeals for the defense of liberty and Union interests
proved effective with voters and profoundly influenced the state's
actions during the secession crisis. The belief that a new national
Union party could preserve the Union while checking the Lincoln
administration encouraged voters initially to reject secession.
With the outbreak of war, however, West and Middle Tennesseans
chose to accept disunion to avoid what they saw as coercion and
military despotism by the North. East Tennesseans, meanwhile,
preferred loyalty to the Union over membership in a Southern
confederacy dominated by a slaveholding aristocracy. No previous
book has so clearly detailed the role of party politics and
ideology in Tennessee's early history. As Atkins shows, the
ideological debate helps to explain not only the character and
survival of Tennessee's party system but also the peristent
strength of unionism in a state that ultimately joined the Southern
cause. The Author: Jonathan M. Atkins is assistant professor of
history at Berry College in Mt. Berry, Georgia.
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