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The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering casualties prompted many civilians to question the wars viability. Frustration exploded into anger when Republican president Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September.

The disgruntled voices grew louder. These anti-Lincoln Democrats, nicknamed Copperheads, viewed blacks with disdain and considered many of Lincolns legal decisions to be unconstitutional. Civilian disenchantment led to significant Republican defeats in the November Congressional elections. As 1862 ended, Northern morale was at rock bot- tom. Across the North, ardent pro-Lincoln men realized their country needed a patriotic stimulus, as well as an organized means of countering what they viewed as their Copperhead adversaries treasonous pronouncements and subversion. These men formed what became known as Union Leagues: semisecretive societies whose members had to possess unconditional loyalty to the Lincoln administration and unwavering support for all of its efforts to suppress the rebellion. Their mysterious member initiation rites were likened to a solemn religious ceremony.

In The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known,Paul Taylor examines the Union League movement. Often portrayed as a mere footnote to the Civil War, the Union Leagues influence on the Northern home front was far more important and consequential than previously considered. The Union League and its various offshoots spread rapidly across the North, and in this first comprehensive examination of the leagues, Taylor discusses what made them so effective, including their recruitment strategies, their use of ostracism as a way of stifling dissent, and their distribution of political propaganda in quantities unlike anything previously imagined. By the end of 1863, readers learn, it seemed as if every hamlet from Maine to California had formed its own league chapter, collectively overwhelming their Democratic foe in the 1864 presidential election.

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The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known CIVIL WAR IN THE NORTH Broken - photo 1
The Most Complete
Political Machine
Ever Known
CIVIL WAR IN THE NORTH
Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union John M. Belohlavek
Banners South: A Northern Community at War Edmund J. Raus
Circumstances are destiny: An Antebellum Womans Struggle to DeWne Sphere Tina Stewart Brakebill
More Than a Contest between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Edited by James Marten and A. Kristen Foster
August Willichs Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry Translated and Edited by Joseph R. Reinhart
Meades Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman Edited by David W. Lowe
Dispatches from Bermuda: The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, U.S. Consul at Bermuda, 18611888 Edited by Glen N. Wiche
The Antebellum Crisis and Americas First Bohemians Mark A. Lause
Orlando M. Poe: Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer Paul Taylor
Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front J. Matthew Gallman
A German Hurrah! Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stngel, 9th Ohio Infantry Translated and Edited by Joseph R. Reinhart
They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry Edited by Glenn Robins
The Story of a Thousand: Being a History of the Service of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Union, from August 21, 1862, to June 6, 1865 Albion W. Tourge, Edited by Peter C. Luebke
The Election of 1860 Reconsidered Edited by A. James Fuller
A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War Edited by Brian Craig Miller
Yankee Dutchmen under Fire: Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry Translated and Edited by Joseph R. Reinhart
The Printers Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family Edited by Patricia A. Donohoe
Conspicuous Gallantry: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of James W. King, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Edited by Eric R. Faust
Johnsons Island: A Prison for Confederate Officers Roger Pickenpaugh
Lincolns Generals Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil Warfor Better and for Worse Candice Shy Hooper
For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops Kelly D. Mezurek
Pure Heart: The Faith of a Father and Son in the War for a More Perfect Union William F. Quigley Jr.
The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known: The Norths Union Leagues in the American Civil War Paul Taylor
The Most Complete
Political Machine
Ever Known
The Norths Union Leagues in
the American Civil War
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Paul Taylor
The Kent State University Press Picture 3Kent, Ohio
2018 by The Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio 44242
All rights reserved
ISBN 978-1-60635-353-0
Manufactured in the United States of America
Cataloging information for this title is available at the Library of Congress.
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There are wars of opinion not fought out with the musket.
William T. Sherman
In such wars those who win are loyal, the defeated ones the traitors.
Caldron
Treason doth never prosper. Whats the reason?
Why if it prospers none dare call it treason.
John Harrington,
sixteenth or early seventeenth century
Contents
Quiet Men Are Dangerous Civilian Antecedents of the Union Leagues There Can Be - photo 4
Quiet Men Are Dangerous: Civilian Antecedents
of the Union Leagues
There Can Be No Neutrals in This War; Only Patriots
or Traitors: The Demand for Public Loyalty
A Fire of Liberty Burning Upon the Altar: The Union
Leagues Arise amidst Despair and Disillusionment
A Refuge Rather Than a Resort for Loyalty:
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston Lead the Way
We Are Learning to Draw the Line Between Treason and
Loyalty: Union League Ostracism and Democratic Resentment
This Is the Time for Pamphleteers and Essayists:
The Pen Begins to Fight Alongside the Sword against
Copperhead Dissent and Violence
The Loyal Leagues Are Really Effecting Public Opinion:
The Broad-Based Loyal Leagues and No Party Now
Neutrality Is Allied to Treason; Indifference Becomes a
Crime; and Whoever Is Not with Us Is Against Us:
A Union League of America Council in Every Town
We Are Not a Partisan, Yet We Are a Political Organization:
Women Enter the Fray as Midwest Dissent Boils Over
We Are Organizing Our Leagues and Getting Ready for the
Great Fight of 1864: An Open Arm of the Republican Party
Once More Rally Around the Flag, and Your Work
Will Be Complete: A Bitter and Partisan Election
It Is a Fatal Mistake to Hold That This War Is Over Because
the Fighting Has Ceased: The Union League in Reconstruction
When Abraham Lincoln was a mere twenty-nine years old in January 1838 he - photo 5
When Abraham Lincoln was a mere twenty-nine years old in January 1838, he exulted in the fact that Americans inhabited a peaceful and prosperous land, and that they lived under a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. The Founding Fathers had fought for this land and established this government; Lincolns generation had received them as a gift. But now it was their responsibility to transmit these to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. Preserving Americas political institutions, Lincoln said, was a task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general.
Clearly, from a young age, Lincoln believed the Union was worth preserving. And these ideas continued to motivate him into his adult life. In his 1852 eulogy for Kentuckian Henry Clay, Lincoln maintained that the worlds best hope depended on the continued Union of these States. Why? Because the United States offered more liberty and equality than any other nation in the world. Ten years later, in 1862, Lincoln told Congress what he believed the Civil War was really about. In fighting for the Union and giving freedom to the slave, he said, We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.
Union soldiers echoed the sentiments of their commander in chief as they marched off to war. In what is now one of the most famous letters of the Civil War, Maj. Sullivan Ballou of the Second Rhode Island Infantry spoke of how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through
For as important as the Union was to many Americans of the Civil War generation, the concept of the Union has not received its due in the historical literature. In some ways it makes sense that scholars would be more interested in questions of nationalism in the Confederacy. After all, the Southern states were attempting to create and define a nation during the Civil War. The Union, by contrast, was merely fighting to preserve a preexisting nation. And yet we cannot begin to understand what motivated Northerners to enlist and fight in the Civil Warand what prompted Northern civilians to support the soldiers in the fieldunless we probe what Union and nation meant to them. If the Union fell, no other nation would be left on earth to carry the torch of liberty.
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