"Erecting Anew the Standard of Freedom": Salmon P. Chase's "Appeal of the Independent Democrats" and the Rise of the Republican Party.

Diffley, Kathleen

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Publication Date: 1988

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"Erecting Anew the Standard of Freedom": Salmon P. Chase's "Appeal of the Independent Democrats" and the Rise of the Republican Party.

Diffley, Kathleen

Quarterly Journal of Speech, v74 n4 p401-15 Nov 1988

Examines the symbolic oppositions that structure the "Appeal," together with its strategy of crisis taken from Puritan jeremiads. Accounts for Chase's success in pulling together disparate forces of the free North. Explores events which laid the ground for the Republican party and civil war. (RAE)

Descriptors: Civil War (United States), Political Attitudes, Political Divisions (Geographic), Rhetorical Criticism, Slavery, Social Values, Speeches

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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