Our CountryPub Date : 2018-06-05DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0007
Grant R. Brodrecht
{"title":"Pax Grantis","authors":"Grant R. Brodrecht","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The sixth chapter shows northern evangelicals preoccupied during Grant’s presidency with managing various cultural, social, and political forces centrifugally threatening the Union. Their larger vision for national Christian oneness continued to subsume the ex-slaves. This was evident in several ways: first, many looked to the cohesive, homogenizing power that evangelicalism promised to provide the large and growing republic; second, predisposed to see Reconstruction end, particularly following the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, northern evangelicals were convinced that they had one of their own in the White House and thus supported Grant during the 1872 election against Liberal Republicans; and third, they regarded him as an ally when it came to addressing the potential threat offered by Native Americans and Roman Catholics. By the end of Grant’s presidency, the Union appeared restored, the nation had just celebrated its centennial, prosperity and oneness seemed to abound, and Americans felt at peace.","PeriodicalId":309091,"journal":{"name":"Our Country","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134539951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Our CountryPub Date : 2018-06-05DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv8j58q.7
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Our CountryPub Date : 2018-06-05DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0006
Grant R. Brodrecht
{"title":"The Union Saved Again","authors":"Grant R. Brodrecht","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The fifth chapter explores the transformation of northern evangelical opinion regarding Andrew Johnson from 1866 to 1868 and their subsequent welcoming of Ulysses S. Grant as a two-time savior of the Union in the election of 1868. During the spring and summer of 1866, Johnson broke with Congressional Republicans over Reconstruction policy and began to lose the support of non-radical northern evangelicals in the process. Many northern evangelicals would feel compelled by Johnson’s stubbornness and southern recalcitrance to support the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and then Johnson’s impeachment in 1868. Northern evangelicals saw an image of themselves in Grant, and they envisioned the final healing of sectional difficulties in a Grant presidency along with the opportunity to focus on other problems threatening their country.","PeriodicalId":309091,"journal":{"name":"Our Country","volume":"280 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131521572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Our CountryPub Date : 2018-06-05DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823279906.003.0008
Grant R. Brodrecht
{"title":"Conclusion: “The Nation Still in Danger”","authors":"Grant R. Brodrecht","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823279906.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823279906.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The Conclusion highlights the reality that Reconstruction had not turned out as most northern evangelicals had hoped. The Christian America envisioned by radicals, one which ensured an equitable place for the ex-slaves, had failed to materialize. Though legally in possession of political and civil rights, those rights were tenuous at best under southern governments, and there was little cultural or political will at the national level to ensure much more beyond nominal freedom. For non-radical northern evangelicals, Reconstruction also failed to provide what they had desired—an affective Christian-American oneness. This became clear in 1881 during the melodrama surrounding James Garfield’s assassination, when northern evangelicals looked to his death to forge an affective Union. The Conclusion also links Civil War-era northern evangelicalism to what would become fundamentalism, mid-twentieth-century neo-evangelicalism, the so-called Religious Right of the late-twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":309091,"journal":{"name":"Our Country","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123113402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Our CountryPub Date : 2018-06-05DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0002
Grant R. Brodrecht
{"title":"“The Uprising of a Great People”","authors":"Grant R. Brodrecht","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter one explores northern evangelical devotion to the Union during the Civil War by looking at its intersection with the public words of Abraham Lincoln. His public words were often particularly attuned to evangelicals’ hearts and minds and seemingly reflected their own understanding of the Union in relation to God. The chapter reveals northern evangelicals’ belief in the supremacy of providence, while relating it to Lincoln’s own preoccupation with the divine meaning of the war. Furthermore, northern evangelicals perceived the Union in terms of an Old Testament-like covenantal relationship to God, which meant that God had been historically at work shaping a Christian-American people who were obligated to live unto him and fight to save the Union. This outlook was reflected in Lincoln’s thanksgiving and fast-day proclamations, and, consequently, mainstream northern evangelicals generally supported his vision for saving their country.","PeriodicalId":309091,"journal":{"name":"Our Country","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115376405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Our CountryPub Date : 2018-06-05DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0004
Grant R. Brodrecht
{"title":"“The Harvest of Death Is Complete”","authors":"Grant R. Brodrecht","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823279906.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Following upon Abraham Lincoln’s electoral victory in 1864, chapter three portrays northern evangelicals anticipating military victory and emergent national oneness. The chapter looks particularly at northern evangelical intersection with Lincoln’s second inaugural address, their initial hopes following the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, and then their reaction to Lincoln’s assassination. Northern evangelicals were ecstatic when the war ended and the Union was preserved, and, despite Lincoln’s assassination and the anger that followed, they looked ahead to Reconstruction as a moment during which affective national Christian oneness would be more fully and strongly attained than ever before in American history. The northern evangelical vision for the Union was intact and optimistic. Northern white evangelicals had never been primarily energized by radical advocacy for racial justice; thus they did not desire or envision the long-term need for strong federal reconstructive efforts in the South.","PeriodicalId":309091,"journal":{"name":"Our Country","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131658036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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