- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Implicitness and Moral Conflict
- 1.1 Negative Capability
- 1.2 Liberalism and Moral Conflict
- 2. Lincoln’s Peoria Speech of 1854
- 2.1 The Debate over the Kansas–Nebraska Act
- 2.2 Making and Breaking Deals in 1850 and in 1854
- 2.3 Lincoln’s Chief Arguments
- 2.4 The Irony of American History
- 3. Lincoln’s Conspiracy Charge
- 3.1 The “House Divided” Metaphor
- 3.2 The Unfolding of the Bleeding Kansas War
- 3.3 Douglas and the Lecompton Constitution
- 3.4 Lincoln’s Evidence
- 3.5 Dred Scott II
- 3.6 A Living Dog Is Better than a Dead Lion
- 4. Douglas’s Conspiracy Charge
- 4.1 Lincoln and the Founding of the Republican Party
- 4.2 The Reorganization of Parties
- 4.3 From Whig to Republican
- 4.4 Anti-Nebraska and Anti-Lecompton Democrats
- 4.5 The 1854 Platforms
- 4.6 Conspiracies across Party Lines
- 4.7 Sectional and Ideological Parties
- 4.8 Conclusion
- 5. Douglas’s Fanaticism Charge
- 5.1 Hostility to New England
- 5.2 The Apodictic Style and Reasonableness
- 5.3 Appeals to the Divine Will
- 5.4 Implicitness and Situatedness
- 5.5 Transformation of Conceptions
- 5.6 Limits of Persuasive Engagement
- 6. Douglas’s Racial Equality Charge
- 6.1 Lincoln’s Nonextension Position and Anti-slavery
- 6.2 Douglas on Abolition and Black Citizenship
- 6.3 From Nonextension to Emancipation
- 6.4 From Emancipation to Citizenship
- 6.5 Racism and Freedom
- 7. The Dred Scott Case
- 7.1 Legal Background of the Case
- 7.2 The Dred Scott Case in Court
- 7.3 Lincoln’s Response
- 7.4 Douglas’s Response
- 7.5 Conclusion
- 8. Aftershocks of the Debates
- 8.1 Southern Responses to the Freeport Doctrine
- 8.2 Douglas’s “Dividing Line” Doctrine
- 8.3 The Pamphlet War with Jeremiah Black
- 8.4 The 1859 Ohio “Lincoln–Douglas Debates”
- 8.5 The Cooper Union Speech
- 8.6 The First Inaugural Address
- 9. Coda: And the War Came
- 9.1 The Gettysburg Address
- 9.2 The Will of God Prevails
- 9.3 The Second Inaugural Address
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index


Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism
Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict
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Publication Date: 01/07/2013