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• catalog abstract ""In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leadership and the citizenry of the uncommitted slave states to join in the effort to destroy the Union and forge a new Southern nation." "Directly refuting the neo-Confederate contention that slavery was neither the reason for secession nor the catalyst for the resulting onset of hostilities in 1861, Charles B. Dew finds in the commissioners' brutally candid rhetoric a stark white supremacist ideology that proves the contrary. The commissioners included in their speeches a constitutional justification for secession, to be sure, and they pointed to a number of political "outrages" committed by the North in the decades prior to Lincoln's election. But the core of their argument - the reason the right of secession had to be invoked and invoked immediately - did not turn on matters of constitutional interpretation or political principle. Over and over again, the commissioners returned to the same point: that Lincoln's election signaled an unequivocal commitment on the part of the North to destroy slavery and that emancipation would plunge the South into a racial nightmare." "Dew's discovery and study of the highly illuminating public letters and speeches of these apostles of disunion - often relatively obscure men sent out to convert the unconverted to the secessionist cause - have led him to suggest that the arguments the commissioners presented provide us with the best evidence we have of the motives behind the secession of the lower South in 1860-61"--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12050482.
• catalog coverage "Southern States Politics and government 1775-1865.".
• catalog coverage "Southern States Race relations Political aspects.".
• catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes.".
• catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1815-1861.".
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description ""Directly refuting the neo-Confederate contention that slavery was neither the reason for secession nor the catalyst for the resulting onset of hostilities in 1861, Charles B. Dew finds in the commissioners' brutally candid rhetoric a stark white supremacist ideology that proves the contrary. The commissioners included in their speeches a constitutional justification for secession, to be sure, and they pointed to a number of political "outrages" committed by the North in the decades prior to Lincoln's election. But the core of their argument - the reason the right of secession had to be invoked and invoked immediately - did not turn on matters of constitutional interpretation or political principle.".
• catalog description ""In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leadership and the citizenry of the uncommitted slave states to join in the effort to destroy the Union and forge a new Southern nation."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction -- Slavery, states' rights, and secession commissioners -- The first wave -- The South Carolinians -- The Alabamians -- The mission to Virginia -- Conclusion: Apostles of disunion, apostles of racism -- Appendix: Documents.".
• catalog description "Over and over again, the commissioners returned to the same point: that Lincoln's election signaled an unequivocal commitment on the part of the North to destroy slavery and that emancipation would plunge the South into a racial nightmare." "Dew's discovery and study of the highly illuminating public letters and speeches of these apostles of disunion - often relatively obscure men sent out to convert the unconverted to the secessionist cause - have led him to suggest that the arguments the commissioners presented provide us with the best evidence we have of the motives behind the secession of the lower South in 1860-61"--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "x, 124 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0813920361 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "A nation divided".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,".
• catalog spatial "Southern States Politics and government 1775-1865.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States Race relations Political aspects.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States".
• catalog spatial "Southern States.".
• catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes.".
• catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1815-1861.".
• catalog subject "973.7/13 21".
• catalog subject "E459 .D4 2001".
• catalog subject "Secession Southern States.".
• catalog subject "Slavery Political aspects Southern States History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Slavery, states' rights, and secession commissioners -- The first wave -- The South Carolinians -- The Alabamians -- The mission to Virginia -- Conclusion: Apostles of disunion, apostles of racism -- Appendix: Documents.".
• catalog title "Apostles of disunion : southern secession commissioners and the causes of the Civil War / Charles B. Dew.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".