LEADER 04122nam 2200625 450 001 9910787954803321 005 20230803195735.0 010 $a1-5017-5803-9 010 $a1-60909-159-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501758034 035 $a(CKB)2670000000567964 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001266383 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11671961 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266383 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11248688 035 $a(PQKB)10312626 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3382605 035 $a(OCoLC)890674549 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33095 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3382605 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10951119 035 $a(OCoLC)923311102 035 $a(DE-B1597)572276 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501758034 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000567964 100 $a20141015h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTo govern the devil in hell $ethe political crisis in territorial Kansas /$fPearl T. Ponce ; design by Shaun Allshouse 210 1$aDe Kalb, Illinois :$cNIU Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (322 pages) 311 $a0-87580-706-2 311 $a0-87580-486-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aJupiter's gift: the creation of Kansas Territory -- Territorial politics and the struggle for party supremacy, 1854-1855 -- Kansas in 1856: the escalating conflict -- Congress and the Kansas issue in 1856 -- The 1856 presidential campaign and Kansas as a party issue -- Pledges and principles: Buchanan, Walker, and Kansas in 1857 -- "The noise of democracy": the struggle over the Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas -- Conclusion: "To the stars through difficulty". 330 $aOne hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of "Bleeding Kansas" and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. Although ample attention has been devoted to understanding why territorial violence broke out in Kansas in 1856, of equal concern but less illuminated is the question of why government, both local and national, allowed the violence to continue unstanched for so long. This question is fundamentally about governance-its existence, exercise, limits, and continuance-and its study has ramifications for understanding both Kansas events and why the American experiment in government failed in 1861. In addition, the book also sheds light on the nature of democracy, the challenges of implanting it in distant environs, the necessity of cooperation at the various levels of government, and the value of strong leadership. To Govern the Devil in Hell uses the prism of governance to investigate what went wrong in territorial Kansas. From the first elections in late 1854 and early 1855, local government was tarnished with cries of illegitimacy that territorial officials could not ameliorate. Soon after, a shadow government was created which further impeded local management of territorial challenges. Ultimately, this book addresses why Presidents Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan failed to act, what hindered Congress from stepping into the void, and why and how the lack of effective governance harmed Kansas and later the United States. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)$2bisacsh 607 $aKansas$xPolitics and government$y1854-1861 607 $aKansas$xHistory$y1854-1861 610 $aBleeding Kansas, American Civil War, President Franklin Pierce, President James Buchanan. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). 676 $a978.1/02 700 $aPonce$b Pearl T.$0945087 702 $aAllshousem$b Shaun 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787954803321 996 $aTo govern the devil in hell$93742137 997 $aUNINA