Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Documentary History of the American Civil War Era
Volume 2 - Political Arguments
1856 Democratic Party Platform
1856 Republican Party Platform
1856 American (Know-Nothing) Party Platform
Lincoln, House Divided Speech, June 16, 1858
Lincoln, Speech Fragment, 1859
Lincoln, Cooper Union Speech, February 27, 1860
Fredrick Douglass on Constitution and Slavery, March 26, 1860
1860 Democratic Party Platform (Douglas Faction)
1860 Democratic Party Platform (Breckinridge Faction)
1860 Constitutional Union Party Platform
1860 Republican Party Platform
South Carolina Ordinance of Secession, December 20, 1860
Alabama Ordinance of Secession, January 11, 1861
Georgia Ordinance of Secession, January 19, 1861
Jefferson Davis Farewell Speech, U.S. Senate, January 21, 1861
Inauguration Speech, Jefferson Davis, February 18, 1861
Robert E. Lee’s Resignation from the U.S. Army, April 20, 1861
General Benjamin Butler, “Contrabands,” July 30, 1861
General John C. Fremont’s Martial Law/Emancipation Policy, August 30, 1861
Karl Marx on the Civil War, October 11, 1861
Thaddeus Stevens, Emancipation, January 22, 1862
1864 Democratic Party Platform
1864 Republican (National Union) Party Platform
Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster Speech, September 9, 1865
Thaddeus Stevens on Reconstruction, December 18, 1865
1868 Democratic Party Platform
1868 Republican Party Platform
1872 Democratic Party Platform
1872 Republican Party Platform
1872 Liberal Republican Platform
1876 Democratic Party Platform
1876 Republican Party Platform
Voices of the Administrations
Introduction
Buchanan Inaugural, March 4, 1857
Attorney General Jeremiah Black on secession, November 20, 1860
President James Buchanan, State of the Union, December 3, 1861
First Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861
Lincoln’s special message to Congress, July 4, 1861, “People’s contest”
Lincoln to Greeley, August 22, 1862, “I would save the Union”
President Lincoln’s December 1862 Message to Congress
General Order 100, Lieber Code, April 23, 1863
Lincoln 10% Plan, December 8, 1863
Wade/Davis Plan, July 2, 1864, and President Lincoln’s Veto, July 8, 1864
Wade/Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862
Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
Grant to Lincoln, African American troops, August 23, 1863
Lincoln to Sherman, soldier vote, September 19, 1864
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, March 4, 1865
Message to Congress, April 29, 1861, “Our cause is just and holy”
Proclamation, Amnesty/Pardon and N.C. Government, May 29, 1865
Attorney General Speed opinion, Lincoln murder trial, April 28, 1865, and July 1865 clarification
Grant, Statement on Reconstruction, August 16, 1864
Grant, Southern Tour Report, December 18, 1865
Grant, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869
Grant, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1873
Hayes, First Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877
Chronology
Selected Readings
Index