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Apostle of Union - A Political Biography of Edward Everett (Paperback)
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Apostle of Union - A Political Biography of Edward Everett (Paperback)
Series: Civil War America
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Known today as "the other speaker at Gettysburg," Edward Everett
had a distinguished and illustrative career at every level of
American politics from the 1820s through the Civil War. In this new
biography, Matthew Mason argues that Everett's extraordinarily
well-documented career reveals a complex man whose shifting
political opinions, especially on the topic of slavery, illuminate
the nuances of Northern Unionism. In the case of Everett--who once
pledged to march south to aid slaveholders in putting down slave
insurrections--Mason explores just how complex the question of
slavery was for most Northerners, who considered slavery within a
larger context of competing priorities that alternately furthered
or hindered antislavery actions. By charting Everett's changing
stance toward slavery over time, Mason sheds new light on
antebellum conservative politics, the complexities of slavery and
its related issues for reform-minded Americans, and the ways in
which secession turned into civil war. As Mason demonstrates,
Everett's political and cultural efforts to preserve the Union, and
the response to his work from citizens and politicians, help us see
the coming of the Civil War as a three-sided, not just two-sided,
contest.
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