Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Conciliation and conflict
- Part 2 Encouraging Southern loyalty, 1865
- Part 3 Seeking Southern cooperation, 1866
- Part 4 Demanding Southern acquiescence, 1867–1868
- Epilogue: The irrelevance of the moderates, 1865–1868
- Appendix: Registration and voting statistics for the Southern State Constitutional Conventions, 1867–8
- A note on sources
- Index
Part 3 - Seeking Southern cooperation, 1866
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Conciliation and conflict
- Part 2 Encouraging Southern loyalty, 1865
- Part 3 Seeking Southern cooperation, 1866
- Part 4 Demanding Southern acquiescence, 1867–1868
- Epilogue: The irrelevance of the moderates, 1865–1868
- Appendix: Registration and voting statistics for the Southern State Constitutional Conventions, 1867–8
- A note on sources
- Index
Summary
… We have nothing, to which the ambitious can aspire, but office. I say nothing, because the private walks of life are as Wide open in England as here, and afford, in that Country, as well as in this, occupation for much of the Active talent of the Community. But office here is family, rank, hereditary fortune, in short, Everything, out of the range of private life. This links its possession with innate principles of our Nature; and truly incredible are the efforts Men are Willing to Make, the humiliations they will endure, to get it.
Edward Everett to Justice John McLean, 18 August 1828, McLean MSS.It ought to irritate no honorable men, it will irritate no reflecting men, that the Southern people decline when a measure is submitted for their sanction, to vote for, as if of choice and conviction, their own injury and their own shame.
Richmond Enquirer, 13 November 1866.- Type
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- Information
- Reunion Without CompromiseThe South and Reconstruction: 1865–1868, pp. 183 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1973