The Peaceable Americans of 1860–1861: A Study in Public Opinion

✍ Scribed by Mary Scrugham

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 128
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law; 219
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Deals with the pre-Civil War era in Kentucky and their unique position from the center of the nation and their calling for a National Constitutional Convention to settle the dispute.

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. AMERICAN IDEAS IN REGARD TO THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY ON THE EVE OF CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER II. THE NATIONALISTIC BASIS OF NEUTRALITY
CHAPTER III. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1860
CHAPTER IV. GOVERNMENT OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE
CHAPTER V. THE POLITICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRING AT SUMTER
CHAPTER VI. KENTUCKY‘S DECISION