02499nam 22004813u 450 991045195490332120211005034107.00-19-992347-71-4294-0769-7(CKB)1000000000465880(EBL)272667(OCoLC)437173341(MiAaPQ)EBC272667(MiAaPQ)EBC886488(Au-PeEL)EBL886488(OCoLC)784886655(EXLCZ)99100000000046588020140113d2006|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSecession Debated[electronic resource] Georgia's Showdown in 1860New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (192 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-507945-0 Contents; 1. Thomas R. R. Cobb's Secessionist Speech, Monday Evening, November 12; 2. Robert Toombs's Secessionist Speech, Tuesday Evening, November 13; 3. Alexander H. Stephens's Unionist Speech, Wednesday Evening, November 14; 4. Benjamin H. Hill's Unionist Speech, Thursday Evening, November 15; 5. Herschel V. Johnson's Unionist Public Letter, Friday, November 16, from Milledgeville; 6. Henry L. Benning's Secessionist Speech, Monday Evening, November 19; 7. Joseph E. Brown's Secessionist Public Letter, December 7, from Milledgeville; Selected BibliographyThe critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists inGeorgia generated as much popular interest south of the Mason-Dixon line, and perhaps had an even more profound immediate effect on the future of the United States. With Abraham Lincoln's ""Black Republican"" triumph in the presidential election of 1860 came ardent secessionist sentiment in the South.SecessionElectronic books.Secession.973.7/13Freehling William W.1935-882715Simpson Craig M.1942-991356AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910451954903321Secession Debated2482345UNINA