Post by RS Davis on Jan 27, 2004 2:38:31 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]John Chodes Wrote:[/glow] Between 1861 and 1865 there were two wars being fought simultaneously in the United States by Abraham Lincoln and his Republican administration. The first was to prevent the independence of the seceded Southern states. The second was a civil war in the North upon the six states controlled by the Democratic Party: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
The Union army was called upon to crush out their guerrilla war, insurrectionary acts, and full-scale military defiance. This opposition was provoked by Lincoln's attempt to insure loyalty through terror: arbitrary arrests of civilians, martial law and military trials for civilians hundreds of miles outside the war zone, confiscation of property of suspected traitors and the closing of anti-Republican periodicals. Thirty-eight thousand Northerners were arrested and taken to unknown places of confinement, without benefit of habeas corpus or trial by jury.
Fernando Wood, the former mayor of New York City, summed up the reality of what provoked the North to rise. He said the United States was in the midst of two revolutions: ‘One, at the South, with the sword, and the other at the North, by Executive and legislative usurpation ... Taking advantage of the popular enthusiasm in behalf of the Union, it has, under the pretext of furthering this holy object, gradually fastened the chains of slavery upon the people.’
The Democratic Party was devoted to peace and reconciliation with the Confederacy. Its platform, like the South's, defended state sovereignty by thwarting the powerful centralized national government advocated by the Republicans.
The Union army was called upon to crush out their guerrilla war, insurrectionary acts, and full-scale military defiance. This opposition was provoked by Lincoln's attempt to insure loyalty through terror: arbitrary arrests of civilians, martial law and military trials for civilians hundreds of miles outside the war zone, confiscation of property of suspected traitors and the closing of anti-Republican periodicals. Thirty-eight thousand Northerners were arrested and taken to unknown places of confinement, without benefit of habeas corpus or trial by jury.
Fernando Wood, the former mayor of New York City, summed up the reality of what provoked the North to rise. He said the United States was in the midst of two revolutions: ‘One, at the South, with the sword, and the other at the North, by Executive and legislative usurpation ... Taking advantage of the popular enthusiasm in behalf of the Union, it has, under the pretext of furthering this holy object, gradually fastened the chains of slavery upon the people.’
The Democratic Party was devoted to peace and reconciliation with the Confederacy. Its platform, like the South's, defended state sovereignty by thwarting the powerful centralized national government advocated by the Republicans.
- Rick
