"Heaven will frown on such a cause as this" : six Democrats who opposed Lincoln's war / Joanna D. Cowden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowden, Joanna Dunlap.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Democratic Party (U.S.).

Copperhead movement.

Dissenters.

Enemies.

United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.

United States.

Politics and government.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Adversaries.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Politicians--United States--Biography.

Politicians.

Democratic Party (U.S.)--Biography.

Dissenters--United States--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 259 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2001]

Summary:

Antiwar protest has long been an under-reported component of the Civil War story. "Heaven Will Frown on Such a Cause as This" traces the life stories of six men in northern states who denounced the war against the Confederacy. These men were called "copperheads" by their opponents, but they labeled themselves "Peace Democrats."

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Ideological Assault against Lincoln 1

Chapter 2 Thomas Hart Seymour, Connecticut Patriarch 25

Chapter 3 James Asheton Bayard, Delaware Patriarch 67

Chapter 4 "He Cannot Be Brought to See That the World Moves": William Bradford Reed of Pennsylvania 95

Chapter 5 "No One Could Vie with Him in Making the Old Ways Seem Better": Charles O'Conor of New York 127

Chapter 6 "Undismayed, Unseduced and Unterrified": Clement Laird Vallandigham and Alexander Long, Defiant Ohioans 155

Chapter 7 The Legacy 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-243) and index.

ISBN:

0761819975

OCLC:

46319712