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The Army, Loyalty, and Dissent

Adam I. P. Smith

in No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North

In wartime, administration supporters' assumption that partisan opposition was disloyal and therefore illegitimate made it acceptable to use the instruments of the state—especially the moral and ... More

In wartime, administration supporters' assumption that partisan opposition was disloyal and therefore illegitimate made it acceptable to use the instruments of the state—especially the moral and physical power of the newly created mass citizen army—to aid the victory of loyal candidates. Loyalty Oaths in the border slave states, and the more informal loyalty tests imposed by the presence of soldiers and provost marshals at the polls in some parts of the North, gave a hard edge to the rhetorical conflation of party and nation. While direct military intervention in election results remained very much the exception rather than the rule, the assumption that justified it—that elections were only legitimate so long as the right side won—was widespread.Less

When French Protestants Replaced British Missionaries in the Pacific and Indian Oceans; Or, How to Avoid the Colonial Trap

Jean-François Zorn

in In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World

This chapter explores three cases—Tahiti, the Loyalty Islands, and Madagascar—in order to illustrate how Protestants from the Société des Missions Évangéliques de Paris (or Paris Mission) negotiated ... More

This chapter explores three cases—Tahiti, the Loyalty Islands, and Madagascar—in order to illustrate how Protestants from the Société des Missions Évangéliques de Paris (or Paris Mission) negotiated working in colonies alongside French Catholics. In each situation, the Paris Mission defended a missionary internationalism against a colonial nationalism, which both the French state and Catholic missionaries sought to impose by associating Protestantism with allegiance to the British Empire. The Paris Mission viewed this association of politics and religion as a trap meant to subordinate apostolic work to a political project.Less

Conclusion

Natalya Vince

in Our fighting sisters: Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954-2012

This chapter summarises the key arguments of the book and concludes by underlining that nationalist narratives can be deconstructed, fragmented and reconstructed in new forms without necessarily ... More

This chapter summarises the key arguments of the book and concludes by underlining that nationalist narratives can be deconstructed, fragmented and reconstructed in new forms without necessarily losing their symbolic power. Whilst the language of the war no longer guarantees loyalty to the political system which has sought to capitalise on it for the past fifty years, it still links citizens to each other. This might seem an unconvincing claim in a society dominated demographically, if not politically, by younger generations who are often described as uninterested in the war and disillusioned with politics. But the real test of the power of a dominant societal discourse is when individuals reproduce it even when it contradicts with their lived experiences, even when they profess that they do not believe in it, or even when they think that they do not know about it.Less

Conclusion: The Need for Loyalty

Mathew A. Foust

in Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life

This conclusion to the book emphasizes that Royce's philosophy of loyalty does not necessitate becoming a moral hero, but simply necessitates that we be loyal, and insofar as it lies in our power, be ... More

This conclusion to the book emphasizes that Royce's philosophy of loyalty does not necessitate becoming a moral hero, but simply necessitates that we be loyal, and insofar as it lies in our power, be loyal to loyalty. It is urged that our lives have sense and meaning if we are loyal, and our lives are genuinely moral if and only if our loyalty is loyal to loyalty. Such loyal living is what recognizes and strives to fulfil the universal need to be helped, devoting our loyal service according to our unique capacities, aptitudes, relationships, interests, and talents. In our quest to live loyally, we will undoubtedly endure times of defeat, but if loyalty is what makes life meaningful, then a defeat of one's loyalty must never be taken as final.Less

Security, Identity, Loyalty

Mark Neocleous

in Critique of Security

This chapter explores the relationship between security, identity and loyalty. Focusing on the formative texts and practices underpinning the rise of the national security state in America, while ... More

This chapter explores the relationship between security, identity and loyalty. Focusing on the formative texts and practices underpinning the rise of the national security state in America, while alluding to more recent developments, the chapter argues that the fabrication of national security goes hand in hand with the fabrication of national identity, and vice versa. Extending well beyond the question of patriotism as a security trope, this ‘identity’ permeates everyday life, and helps construct political loyalty – not just to the state, but to security per se. Loyalty is treated as a key political technology for simultaneously gauging identity and reaffirming security, thereby revealing the security-identity-loyalty complex.Less

“Well Calculated to Test the Loyalty of Her Citizens”: Property, Principle, and the Oath of Allegiance

Jarret Ruminski

in The Limits of Loyalty: Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi

This chapter examines how Confederate and Union forces tried to enforce loyalty among Mississippians by judging them according to the standard of protective nationalism. Both sides used the Oath of ... More

This chapter examines how Confederate and Union forces tried to enforce loyalty among Mississippians by judging them according to the standard of protective nationalism. Both sides used the Oath of Allegiance and took advantage of situations such as property disputes and alleged war profiteering to gauge citizens’ alleged national loyalties. Although Mississippians had largely embraced a protective nationalist fervor during the buildup to secession and throughout the first year of the war, such enthusiasm came easy when the conflict’s hardships had yet to come to their doorsteps. As the second year of the war arrived, however, military events tested Mississippians’ ability to devote themselves entirely to the Rebel cause. Their multiple allegiances made loyalty enforcement problematic for two warring governments seeking to put citizens into dichotomized “loyal” and “disloyal” camps. The ideals of protective nationalism proved elusive when faced with the harsh reality of its practical implication on the ground.Less

“I Believe That ‘the Institution’ Is Extinct”: Loyalty in the Master-Slave Relationship

Jarret Ruminski

in The Limits of Loyalty: Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi

Differing notions of loyalty among slaves and slaveholders from 1860-1865 are the subject of Chapter 5. This chapter highlights how the internal war between Mississippi slaves and slaveholders, which ... More

Differing notions of loyalty among slaves and slaveholders from 1860-1865 are the subject of Chapter 5. This chapter highlights how the internal war between Mississippi slaves and slaveholders, which had simmered during the antebellum era, exploded during the Civil War. Slaveholders insisted that their slaves only express an unconditional servile loyalty to their masters, the basis of the master-slave relationship. Slaves, however, rejected this forced servility and embraced multiple conceptions of freedom by acting on loyalties that they had forged while in bondage. These loyalties, in turn, enabled them to envision the lived experience of freedom during and after the war. Although black Mississippians shared a collective desire to escape from the forced servility of white mastery, once emancipated they embraced different views that associated freedom with land ownership, property rights, wage labor, and military service.Less

The Nature of Loyalty

Mathew A. Foust

in Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life

With a close examination of Royce's treatment of the concept, as well as an etymological and historical study of the term, this chapter clarifies what, precisely, loyalty is. “Loyalty” is thus ... More

With a close examination of Royce's treatment of the concept, as well as an etymological and historical study of the term, this chapter clarifies what, precisely, loyalty is. “Loyalty” is thus distinguished from “devotion,” “faithfulness,” “fidelity,” and other related terms. Attention is paid to the “chance and misleading associations” of the term which Royce wishes to avoid, most notably those connecting loyalty with war. Moreover, the chapter establishes what is essential to the term, in Royce's estimation, as he develops and deploys the concept in The Philosophy of Loyalty. While Royce's definition of loyalty is often quoted as “the willing and practical and thoroughgoing devotion of a person to a cause,” it is noted that Royce stipulates that this is a preliminary definition. Each of the terms of this preliminary definition is analyzed, as well as its relationship to Royce's completed definition, “the Will to Believe in something eternal, and to express that belief in the practical life of a human being.”Less

Loyalty

Neema Parvini

in Shakespeare's Moral Compass

This chapter approaches the topic of loyalty in Shakespeare’s plays primarily through the lens of Antonio’s devotion to Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice and Celia’s to Rosalind in As You Like It. ... More

This chapter approaches the topic of loyalty in Shakespeare’s plays primarily through the lens of Antonio’s devotion to Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice and Celia’s to Rosalind in As You Like It. It argues that although these pairs of friends are differently gendered, they are structurally very similar, and marked by their total imbalance. Both Antonio and Celia demonstrate exceptional selflessness in their loyalty, despite the fact that neither Bassanio nor Rosalind come close to ever repaying their kindness. The chapter suggests that our difficulty in processing these disproportionate relationships is because they upset the moral foundation of fairness, but loyalty is not transactional. It seems, rather, that Shakespeare’s notion of friendship rested partly on the Christian (Thomist) virtue of charity. It also argues that when Shakespeare deals with loyalty, he focuses on individual relationships, as opposed to groups. In the language of modern psychological and sociological studies, this renders his friendships, and by extension his concept of loyalty, “feminine” even though the friendships he depicts are between both men and women.Less

Haunted by Howison's Criticism: The Birth of Royce's Late Philosophy

Dwayne A. Tunstall

in Yes, But Not Quite: Encountering Josiah Royce's Ethico-Religious Insight

This chapter examines the development of Royce's ethico-religious insight in many of his writings, ranging from his 1896 essay “ The Problem of Job” to The Philosophy of ... More

This chapter examines the development of Royce's ethico-religious insight in many of his writings, ranging from his 1896 essay “ The Problem of Job” to The Philosophy of Loyalty. The chapter claims that in “ The Problem of Job”, Royce lays the foundation for all of his subsequent philosophy, because it is the first essay in which his ethico-religious insight ceases to be in the background and illuminates his entire philosophy, breathing new life into his absolute idealism.Less

What Is Exit?

Jennet Kirkpatrick

in The Virtues of Exit: On Resistance and Quitting Politics

This introductory chapter examines the current scholarship on leaving or walking away from political groups such as nation states, political parties, and civic associations. It argues that “exit” ... More

This introductory chapter examines the current scholarship on leaving or walking away from political groups such as nation states, political parties, and civic associations. It argues that “exit” tends to have three characteristics in this literature. It is associated with individualism, anti-participation, and freedom from higher authority. In short, exit is often thought of as an act that cuts someone off from politics or frees a person from the burden on politics. The chapter suggests that there is another way to think about exit as remaining connected to politics and attached to political communities. Using James Baldwin’s self-exile from the United States as an example, it offers an initial glimpse of what this alternative way of leaving looks like and provides an overview of the chapters of the book. Less

Bad Sex

Yvonne C. Zimmerman

in Other Dreams of Freedom: Religion, Sex, and Human Trafficking

This chapter examines several specific policies enacted by the George W. Bush administration, including abstinence-only sex education, antiprostitution pledges, and the Prostitution Loyalty Oath in ... More

This chapter examines several specific policies enacted by the George W. Bush administration, including abstinence-only sex education, antiprostitution pledges, and the Prostitution Loyalty Oath in the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003, that incorporated a conservative Protestant sexual morality into the United States' anti-trafficking project. Beyond the conceptual conflation of human trafficking and sex trafficking, these policies further conflated sex trafficking with bad or immoral sex more generally.Less

Friendship

Judith N. Shklar

Samantha Ashenden and Andreas Hess (eds)

in On Political Obligation

In this chapter Shklar continues to discuss loyalty conflicts in classical times. She uses the case of the Roman general Coriolanus and a number of classical and modern commentaries on him in order ... More

In this chapter Shklar continues to discuss loyalty conflicts in classical times. She uses the case of the Roman general Coriolanus and a number of classical and modern commentaries on him in order to illustrate further complications arising from different positions taken inconflicts of loyalty.Less

Barbour, the Influential Executive

Brian Pugh

in Chaos and Compromise: The Evolution of the Mississippi Budgeting Process

This chapter discusses how Governor Haley Barbour successfully penetrated the legislatively dominated budget making process. It shows how Barbour did not increase the formal powers of the executive ... More

This chapter discusses how Governor Haley Barbour successfully penetrated the legislatively dominated budget making process. It shows how Barbour did not increase the formal powers of the executive branch of government, but how he did increase the informal executive powers significantly. Chapter 8 explains how Barbour gained budget power through political relationships on the state and federal levels, which ultimately resulted in the state of Mississippi withstanding one of the worst storms in the nation’s history, Hurricane Katrina. Unlike his predecessor discussed in the previous chapter, Governor Barbour did not get a single gubernatorial veto overridden because of the party loyalty that he championed among Republicans.Less

Save a School to Save a Nation: Faculty Responses to the Civil War at Midwestern Universities

Julie Mujic

in So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War Era North

This chapter examines how faculty members at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, and Indiana University responded to the American Civil War. A Midwestern home-front study, this ... More

This chapter examines how faculty members at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, and Indiana University responded to the American Civil War. A Midwestern home-front study, this chapter reveals that despite their support of the war itself, professors in Midwestern state schools created rhetoric that prioritized higher education over enlistment, and they worked hard to obtain Morrill Land-Grant Act money in order to ensure the viability of their institutions. This chapter contributes to scholarship regarding intellectual history during the Civil War and to the ongoing historical debate about loyalty and how Americans viewed service to their country in a time of war.Less

“Dedicated to the Proposition”: Principle, Consequence, and Duty to the Egalitarian Nation, 1848–1865

Melinda Lawson

in Contested Loyalty: Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North

Melinda Lawson explores the meaning of national loyalty through the writings of abolitionist leader Wendell Phillips, anti-slavery Congressman George Julian, and President Abraham Lincoln. The author ... More

Melinda Lawson explores the meaning of national loyalty through the writings of abolitionist leader Wendell Phillips, anti-slavery Congressman George Julian, and President Abraham Lincoln. The author stresses that elite men were moved by notionsof “duty,” compelling them to uphold moral principles in their civic roles. Lawson’s work suggests the challenges men of antislavery conviction faced in a slaveholding republic where the Constitution nurtured the “peculiar institution.” Theirs was not a national loyalty of blind allegiance to the Constitution and the laws. Instead, each of the three held as sacred the ideals of liberty and equality written in the Declaration of Independence. This chapter traces how each man navigated the complicated duties of a true patriot through disunion and war.Less