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“An Impossible Idea?”: The Curious Career of Internal Colonization

“An Impossible Idea?”: The Curious Career of Internal Colonization n ic holas guyatt “An Impossible Idea?” The Curious Career of Internal Colonization In the summer of 1865, newspapers across the United States reported an unexpected twist in the Ohio gubernatorial election. The Republican can- didate, Gen. Jacob Dolson Cox, had come under pressure from the state’s Democratic newspapers to reveal his position on black suff rage. Democrats suspected the worst. Cox was a graduate of Oberlin College, perhaps the most racially progressive institution in the nation, and a confi rmed oppo- nent of slavery. (He was also the son-in-law of Oberlin’s crusading presi- dent, Charles Grandison Finney.) During his years as a state senator before the war, Cox had opposed the Fugitive Slave Act, urged clemency for John Brown and his associates, and voted against a bill to outlaw intermarriage in Ohio. He had fought under Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, and he seemed destined for a national political career. At the end of July, a group of Oberlin residents—perplexed by Cox’s silence—wrote the general for clarifi cation of his views. Cox’s reply took everyone by surprise. In what became known as his “Oberlin Letter,” Cox proposed to “take contiguous territory in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida” http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

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n ic holas guyatt “An Impossible Idea?” The Curious Career of Internal Colonization In the summer of 1865, newspapers across the United States reported an unexpected twist in the Ohio gubernatorial election. The Republican can- didate, Gen. Jacob Dolson Cox, had come under pressure from the state’s Democratic newspapers to reveal his position on black suff rage. Democrats suspected the worst. Cox was a graduate of Oberlin College, perhaps the most racially progressive institution in the nation, and a confi rmed oppo- nent of slavery. (He was also the son-in-law of Oberlin’s crusading presi- dent, Charles Grandison Finney.) During his years as a state senator before the war, Cox had opposed the Fugitive Slave Act, urged clemency for John Brown and his associates, and voted against a bill to outlaw intermarriage in Ohio. He had fought under Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, and he seemed destined for a national political career. At the end of July, a group of Oberlin residents—perplexed by Cox’s silence—wrote the general for clarifi cation of his views. Cox’s reply took everyone by surprise. In what became known as his “Oberlin Letter,” Cox proposed to “take contiguous territory in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida”

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Published: May 2, 2014

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