LEADER 02499nam 22004813u 450 001 9910451954903321 005 20211005034107.0 010 $a0-19-992347-7 010 $a1-4294-0769-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000465880 035 $a(EBL)272667 035 $a(OCoLC)437173341 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC272667 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC886488 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL886488 035 $a(OCoLC)784886655 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000465880 100 $a20140113d2006|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSecession Debated$b[electronic resource] $eGeorgia's Showdown in 1860 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-507945-0 327 $aContents; 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 Bibliography 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aSecession 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aSecession. 676 $a973.7/13 700 $aFreehling$b William W.$f1935-$0882715 701 $aSimpson$b Craig M.$f1942-$0991356 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451954903321 996 $aSecession Debated$92482345 997 $aUNINA