No party now : politics in the Civil War North
During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis. In No Party Now, Adam I.P. Smith challenges the prevailing view that political processes in the North somehow helped the Union be more stable and effective in the war. Instead, Smith argues, early efforts to suspend party politics collapsed in the face of divisions over slavery and the purpose of the war. At the same time, new contexts for political mob
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Introduction
Concepts of party and nation before the Civil War
The patriotic imperative
The Emancipation Proclamation and the party system
The Union Leagues and the emergence of antiparty nationalism
The army, loyalty, and dissent
Slavery, reconstruction, and the Union Party
Emancipation and antiparty nationalism in the 1864 election campaign
Conclusion
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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