Joshua David Hawley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300120103
- eISBN:
- 9780300145144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300120103.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
On October 25, 1858, William H. Seward of the fledgling Republican Party addressed a large crowd in Rochester, New York about slave labor in America. He predicted that either the sugar plantations of ...
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On October 25, 1858, William H. Seward of the fledgling Republican Party addressed a large crowd in Rochester, New York about slave labor in America. He predicted that either the sugar plantations of Louisiana would employ free men or the wheat fields of the North would be tilled by slaves. Seward's forecast was supported by Northern preachers, abolitionists, free labor advocates, and unionists, who denounced slavery because it was incompatible with free government and healthy capitalism. Two days later, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to a boy whom she and her husband, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., named Theodore. Theodore Jr. was the child of the house of Roosevelt, a member of the eighth generation of a family born in the United States. Virility, faith, science, and race were his enduring preoccupations. The heterodox creed common to Roosevelt Jr.'s youth was Unitarianism, a faith that, along with Transcendentalism, challenged the traditional structures of orthodox Christianity.Less
On October 25, 1858, William H. Seward of the fledgling Republican Party addressed a large crowd in Rochester, New York about slave labor in America. He predicted that either the sugar plantations of Louisiana would employ free men or the wheat fields of the North would be tilled by slaves. Seward's forecast was supported by Northern preachers, abolitionists, free labor advocates, and unionists, who denounced slavery because it was incompatible with free government and healthy capitalism. Two days later, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to a boy whom she and her husband, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., named Theodore. Theodore Jr. was the child of the house of Roosevelt, a member of the eighth generation of a family born in the United States. Virility, faith, science, and race were his enduring preoccupations. The heterodox creed common to Roosevelt Jr.'s youth was Unitarianism, a faith that, along with Transcendentalism, challenged the traditional structures of orthodox Christianity.
Joshua David Hawley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300120103
- eISBN:
- 9780300145144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300120103.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Political History
Despite a promising career in the New York State Assembly, Theodore Roosevelt left Albany and sought refuge on the banks of the Little Missouri in Dakota after suffering a personal tragedy and ...
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Despite a promising career in the New York State Assembly, Theodore Roosevelt left Albany and sought refuge on the banks of the Little Missouri in Dakota after suffering a personal tragedy and political disappointment. He announced his engagement to Alice Hathaway Lee on February 14, 1880, and voted against labor union-supported bills to increase the pay of policemen and firefighters in New York City in March 1882. Theodore's first child, a girl, was born on February 13, 1884 while the legislature was hours away from approving his bill that would strip the New York City aldermen of their power to confirm the mayor's appointments. The measure was his most promising bid to promote good government in New York. The following day, his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, and wife died. This chapter examines Roosevelt's conception of public virtue as private morality, his understanding of urban politics, and his view of race. It also looks at Roosevelt's romantic warrior mentality and how he folded it into neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory to create a personal code of conduct.Less
Despite a promising career in the New York State Assembly, Theodore Roosevelt left Albany and sought refuge on the banks of the Little Missouri in Dakota after suffering a personal tragedy and political disappointment. He announced his engagement to Alice Hathaway Lee on February 14, 1880, and voted against labor union-supported bills to increase the pay of policemen and firefighters in New York City in March 1882. Theodore's first child, a girl, was born on February 13, 1884 while the legislature was hours away from approving his bill that would strip the New York City aldermen of their power to confirm the mayor's appointments. The measure was his most promising bid to promote good government in New York. The following day, his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, and wife died. This chapter examines Roosevelt's conception of public virtue as private morality, his understanding of urban politics, and his view of race. It also looks at Roosevelt's romantic warrior mentality and how he folded it into neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory to create a personal code of conduct.
