A Peace Movement in Civil War Connecticut
1964; The MIT Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/364033
ISSN1937-2213
Autores Tópico(s)American Sports and Literature
Resumocoln's problems might not lie south of the Capital.' Not only in the Copperhead Middle West, but in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New England, people were indicating that they did not favor-and perhaps might oppose-the gathering war. In the Northeast this dissent was largely local and sporadic: a scattered minority of Democratic politicians, newspaper editors, and citizen groups criticized the President's nonappeasement policies and urged the adoption of the Crittenden Compromise or some other measure that might re-establish the Union.2 Only in Connecticut did the protests coalesce into what might be called a peace movement and threaten, briefly, to set off a minority rebellion north of the battle lines. As in other Northern States, the peace men of Connecticut emerged from the breakup of the Democratic Party over the Presidential election of 186o. At the state's presidential convention a strong conservative minority lost control of the party through their efforts to nominate John C. Breckinridge, candidate of the slave-holding Democrats. Like the bolters at the national convention in Charleston, South Carolina, the Connecticut dissenters reassembled and made their nomination.3 They had fought too long against Free Soilers and abolitionist Republicans to accept a man with Stephen Douglas' views on slavery. Some of Connecticut's ablest Democrats headed the Breck-
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