Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2001]
0195130278
The Union's task -- Fault lines in the pre-Civil War South -- The secession crisis -- From neutrality to unionism -- The jackpot -- The delay -- The collaboration -- The harvest -- The last best hope -- The taproot and its blight.
Introduction: Southern Unionist Pamphleteers on Governance during the Civil War -- Reply to the Speech of Hon. J. C. Breckinridge, Delivered in the United States Senate, July 16th, 1861 / The Civil War: Its Nature and End / Speech on the Object of the War / Speech on the Bill to Confiscate the Property and Free the Slaves of Rebels / Speech against the Great Rebellion / Union and Secession in Mississippi / The Wrongs to Missouri's Loyal People / The Institution of Slavery in the Southern States, Religiously and Morally Considered in Connection with Our Sectional Troubles / Address in Favor of Reunion in 1863 / What Is Unconditional Unionism? / Address to the People of Texas / Speech on the Restoration of State Government / Letter to His Excellency the President and the Honorable Congress of the United States, on the Subject of Abuse of Military Power in the Command of General Butler in Virginia and North Carolina / Speech in the House of Representatives of the United States, May 17th, 1864, in Defence of His Claim to a Seat in That Body / Letter / Letter to the Hon. Henry Winter Davis / The Political Position of Thomas J. Durant / Speech on the Occasion of the Reception by the Legislature of the News of the Passage of the Convention Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri / Comments on Southern Unionist Pamphlets Not Selected for Inclusion -- Comments on Immediate Postwar Southern Unionist Pamphlets.
