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Lyman Trumbull and the Second Founding of the United States
The Civil War and Reconstruction periods in United States history are widely viewed as a “second founding” of the nation—one that sought to bring the American regime into better alignment with the aspirations articulated at the first founding. Among the figures involved in shaping this new start for the American republic, Lyman Trumbull played an instrumental role. As the chairman of the influential Senate Judiciary Committee, Trumbull advanced the most important legislation of both the Civil War and Reconstruction, including the First and Second Confiscation Acts, the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863, the 1866 Freedmen’s Bureau Act, and the Military Reconstruction Acts. Most significantly,...
The Life of Lyman Trumbull (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Life of Lyman Trumbull A few years since, the widow of Lyman Trumbull requested me to write a biography of her husband, who was United States Senator from Illinois during the three senatorial terms 1855 - 1873, or to recommend some suit able person for the task. It had been a cause of surprise and regret to me that the name of Trumbull had not yet found a place in the swelling ood of biographical litera ture that embraces the Civil War period. Everybody, North or South, who stood on the same elevation with him, everybody who exercised in uence and filled the public eye in equal measure with him, had found his niche in the libraries of the nation, and such place in the hearts...
Remarks of Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, on Seizure of Arsenals at Harper's Ferry, Va., and Liberty, Mo., and in Vindication of the Republican Party and Its Creed, in Response to Senators Chesnut, Yulee, Saulsbury, Clay and Pugh
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The Life of Lyman Trumbull
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