Friedrich Hecker: Two Lives for LibertyUniversity of Missouri Press, 2006 - 492 páginas Friedrich Hecker (1811-1881) lived the first half of his life in the Grand Duchy of Baden, a small state in southern Germany. He was a major leader of a rebellion on behalf of the German republican movement in 1848, but his defeat forced him into exile in America. There he spent the second half of his life as a farmer in southern Illinois, helping to found the Republican Party and campaigning among his countrymen in local and national elections. During the Civil War he served bravely, fighting in some of the most important battles. Although much better known in Germany than in America, he founded a remarkable family in the Midwest that is still flourishing and is a major example of the melding of the European and American traditions of liberty. The work draws heavily from original sources, including letters and diaries at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, the Missouri Historical Society, and the St. Louis Mercantile Library. |
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Authors Foreword | 13 |
The GermanCatholics and Thomas Paine | 64 |
Community and the Sense of the Community Associations | 72 |
III | 87 |
Exile and New Homeland 184854 | 125 |
The Beginnings of the Republican Party in Illinois 185460 | 153 |
Hecker and the American Civil War 186165 | 219 |
Reconstruction 186576 | 257 |
Germany A Country without a Bill of Rights | 305 |
Lectures | 359 |
Apologist for the Republican Party 187681 | 395 |
Cosmopolitan Unity versus | 435 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abraham Lincoln American April August Baden Badischer Belleville Belleviller Zeitung Bismarck box 9 Brentano campaign Carl Schurz Caspar Butz Catholic Chamber Charles Söhner Chicago citizens Civil Clair County constitution declared demand Democratic deputies Douglas election emigration Emil Preetorius Erinnerungen FH to Charles FH's folder 38 Foner Forty-Eighters Frankfurt Franz Sigel Frémont Friedrich Hecker Friedrich Kapp Georg Schneider German German-American Gustav Körner Gustav von Struve Hecker wrote ibid Illinois Staatszeitung Itzstein June later lectures letter liberty Lincoln Lorenz Brentano Louis Lyman Trumbull Mannheim March Mathy Missouri moral movement Muttenz Nachlaß National Assembly October Offenburg officers participation political pre-Parliament president principles question quoted in BZ reform Refugees regiment republic Republican Party Revolution revolutionary Rotteck Schurz Papers September Sigel slavery slaves speech Struve Summerfield tion TISZ Union vote Washburne weekly Westliche Post York