National Reconstruction

National Reconstruction
Title National Reconstruction PDF eBook
Author Joseph John Robinson
Publisher
Total Pages 176
Release 1918
Genre Great Britain
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Statesmanship and Reconstruction

Statesmanship and Reconstruction
Title Statesmanship and Reconstruction PDF eBook
Author Philip B. Lyons
Publisher Lexington Books
Total Pages 369
Release 2014-10-24
Genre History
ISBN 073918508X

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Besides massive race prejudice and the perceived vindictiveness of the radical Republicans, another factor that contributed strongly to the derailment of reconstruction after the Civil War was the conflicting decisions taken by the political leaders. Lincoln warned against differences between the friends of freedom, and to overcome these, took charge of the reconstruction of Louisiana and showed how it should be done by pitting benefits of enlightened free government against the prejudices of the populace. Unfortunately, his example was lost on his successor, Andrew Johnson, whose encouragement of Southern resistance to the North’s terms aggravated factionalism within the Republican party. The moderates dominated in the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment, where they incorporated the statesmanlike principle of a benefit, self-government in exchange for Southerners protecting the rights of all their citizens, black and white. However, this statesmanlike bargain was practically abandoned in Congress’s response to the Southern states’ rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Congressional Reconstructions Act. The fears of the moderates that the new state governments would not protect rights led them to propose universal suffrage, while the fears of the radicals that disloyal men would rule led them to provide for the disfranchisement of many ex-rebels and to hold any governments established, provisional only, subject to congressional change at will. As result the incentive for native white Southerners to participate in the new state governments in exchange for rights protection was drastically weakened. The consequences of this legislative "straight jacket" made it extremely difficult for Republicans in the defeated states to establish permanent political footholds. Some tried to hold onto power without attempting to cultivate native white support and lost their states for the Republicans. Three other leaders’ efforts to strike a balance between radicals and Democrats fell flat. Imprudent decisions of the Grant Administration shattered the attempts of three more states to establish a common ground with moderate Democrats. On the positive side, there was a leader in Virginia who figured out the kind of political arrangement necessary for Republicans to survive, and in Florida, a moderate Republican Governor, Ossian Bingley Hart, exercised real statesmanship to lead the most successful of all reconstruction governments. Statesmanship in reconstruction could have spared the South some severe hardships. Despite the vast change in public opinion on race relations over the last nearly 150 years, there are still lessons drawn from this study that can be applied to present day Civil Rights Policy.

National Reconstruction

National Reconstruction
Title National Reconstruction PDF eBook
Author J. J. Robinson
Publisher Forgotten Books
Total Pages 170
Release 2018-01-13
Genre Self-Help
ISBN 9780428984168

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Excerpt from National Reconstruction: A Study in Practice Politics and Statesmanship Many months ago, in response to a direct invitation from a source it would have been unpatriotic to disregard, I set up the framework of this book. It was accepted by those for whom it was prepared. In July of 1917, it became necessary to write the book. My membership of the Education Committee of the British Science Guild, and a life-long apprenticeship to organisation and administration of various types, may have been provoking causes; but to whatever accident the first contact was due, I could not turn from a suggestion which led me to a task so continuative of the activities and aims of a busy life, at a crisis in the history of a country to which I owe both my activities and my aims. I am painfully aware of many shortcomings in a performance which had to find fulfilment in months heavily taxed by routine duties and public work. But I do not wish my offering, such as it is, to lack one recommendation to which it certainly is entitled. Whatever is written is the fruit of forty years' studentship, in three widely differing provincial areas, of the practical politics here advocated, and of effective experience with many classes of men and most types of service in the United Kingdom, and, to a less extent of course, but still to a real extent, in more than one European country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

From Slave to Statesman

From Slave to Statesman
Title From Slave to Statesman PDF eBook
Author Patricia Smith Prather
Publisher University of North Texas Press
Total Pages 298
Release 1995
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780929398877

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Joshua Houston (1822- 1902) was born on the Temple Lea plantation in Marion, Perry County, Alabama. In 1834 Templeton Lea died and willed Joshua to his daughter, Margaret, as her personal slave. In 1840 Margaret Lea married General Sam Houston and moved to Texas. She took Joshua with her. Joshua faithfully served the Houston family during their many political and financial ups and downs. In 1862 Sam Houston freed his slaves. Joshua elected to remain with the Houston family and took Houston as his surname. In 1866 he homesteaded in Huntsville, Texas, near the Houston family. He became a well-known and respected public figure in Huntsville where he served as city alderman and later served as county commissioner of Wlker County. In 188 he was elected as a delegate to the National Republican Convention from Texas. He was the father of seven or eight children by three different women. Descendants live in Texas.

Declaration Statesmanship

Declaration Statesmanship
Title Declaration Statesmanship PDF eBook
Author Richard Ferrier
Publisher CreateSpace
Total Pages 268
Release 2014-05-08
Genre American government
ISBN 9781497537965

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The text begins with the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States, explaining how the Declaration contains all the underlying principles and truths that our country was founded on, and continues on through the writing of the Constitution and the forming of the government, and how the founding fathers incorporated all the fundamental principles within the Constitution. The program next discusses the challenges our country faced in the past and how they were eventually solved, and how those same problems apply to America today.

The Lincoln Forum

The Lincoln Forum
Title The Lincoln Forum PDF eBook
Author John Y. Simon
Publisher Da Capo Press
Total Pages 0
Release 1999-04-21
Genre History
ISBN 9781882810376

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A recent conference on Lincoln at Gettysburg resulted in this remarkable book of essays by distinguished Civil War scholars and Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, with an introduction by William C. Davis.

Foundations of the American Century

Foundations of the American Century
Title Foundations of the American Century PDF eBook
Author Inderjeet Parmar
Publisher Columbia University Press
Total Pages 369
Release 2012-04-03
Genre History
ISBN 0231517939

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Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in the name of benevolent stewardship. Parmar begins in the 1920s with the establishment of these foundations and their system of top-down, elitist, scientific giving, which focused more on managing social, political, and economic change than on solving modern society's structural problems. Consulting rare documents and other archival materials, he recounts how the American intellectuals, academics, and policy makers affiliated with these organizations institutionalized such elitism, which then bled into the machinery of U.S. foreign policy and became regarded as the essence of modernity. America hoped to replace Britain in the role of global hegemon and created the necessary political, ideological, military, and institutional capacity to do so, yet far from being objective, the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations often advanced U.S. interests at the expense of other nations. Incorporating case studies of American philanthropy in Nigeria, Chile, and Indonesia, Parmar boldly exposes the knowledge networks underwriting American dominance in the twentieth century.