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In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system. Brooke's analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers a window onto a local struggle that mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.

A self-conscious liberal Quakerism emerged in North America between 1790 and 1920. It shared three characteristics: commitment to liberty of conscience; questioning of Christian orthodoxy; and an insistence that liberalism was a continuation of historic Quakerism.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ... f 1.3 One of these was not Inaptly called " The short cut." It was dated 1st mo. 1801; and directly, but most unreasonably, inputes Deism to the party accused, and insinuates that such opinions as her's, concerning war, have a tendency to lead to theism. So important was the circulation of this paper deemed, that copies of it were sent by the post, to persons entitled to sit as judges upon the charges against the Appellant, who were ig norant to whom they were indebted for the favou; two of whom honourably sent the copies they so received to Hannah Barnard, by way of apprising her what insidious means were employed to prejudice the minds of Friends against a person so circumstanced. The name of die writer, which was not over-cautiously concealed, served to give credit and currency to this orthodox effusion, among those who are more influenced by the authority of names, than the cogency of arguments. About two months afterwards, another MS. of much greater length, made its appearance, bearing strong internal-evidence, in style, in argument, in candour, in civility, and charity, of being the production of the same pen. (a) By these, and some other still more defamatory libels, suspicions of indefinite, or rather boundless, scepticism and infidelity, were excited against the party accused. Under these circumstances, as the Appellant was not only disappointed in her just expectation, that the charges against her would be fairly and openly canvassed, but also well knew the prevalence of unfounded aspersions on her character and principles, the most injurious of which appeared, on the clearest evidence, to have originated with some of her primary accusers, she gave notice of appeal in the following terms. "To the Quarterly Meeting for London...