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BOOK REVIEWS189 movement and as a Radical Republican. Was Lovejoy influenced by Finney or Weld? (Magdol suggests that he may have been influenced by die latter.) To what extent was he retaliating for his brother's death? Did he share widi odiers that combination of reformism and ambition which seems to have provided the driving force for many political abolitionists? What of Lovejoy's private life? Apparently he was a loving fadier and husband in a felicitous family setting, but we are given very few clues to the inner side of his character. Magdol prefers to present a scholarly and detailed account of the outward Lovejoy. In this he has been eminendy successful. Patrck Riddleberger Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Joe Lane of Oregon: Machine Politics and the Sectional Crisis, 18491861 . By James E. Hendrickson. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967. Pp. xiii, 274. $6.50.) In this study of frontier leadership and territorial politics James E. Hendrickson skillfully uses the pivotal figure of Joseph Lane to trace and explain die disintegration of die Democratic party that dominated the Oregon Territory for most of the decade before the Civil War. Hendrickson is not the first to focus on early political developments in Oregon. The pioneer treatment of the subject is Walter Carleton Woodward , The Rise and Early History of Political Parties in Oregon, 18431868 (1913), a book still useful for detailing the impact of local issues on the region's politics. More recendy, Robert W. Johannsen, in Frontier Politics and the Sectional Conflict: The Pacific Northwest on the Eve of the Civil War (1955), stresses the connections between Northwest territorial politics and developments on the national scene showing, among other things, the strength of Stephen A. Douglas" popular sovereignty doctrine on die Pacific Northwest frontier. Like Johannsen, Hendrickson keeps the national scene in sight but his fundamental contribution is to untangle die skein of personal and political relationships within the Oregon Democracy and diereby document die way an ambitious and shrewd politician widi connections in Washington and control over federal patronage emerged from popular figurehead at the start of the 1850's to challenge successfully the control of his party at home by a coterie of machine politicians known as die "Salem Cuque." Hendrickson makes it clear that Joe Lane, seeking to consolidate and direct his popular following, broke with the Clique, led by Asahel Bush, editor of die Oregon Statesman, before die pressures of sectional controversy fatally divided die Oregon Democrats. That division, in which Lane rigidly adhered to proslavery and states-rights principles and Bush and die Clique embraced popular sovereignty, nullified Lane's local triumph and delivered the new state to Abraham Lincoln in 18650. The defeat of 190CIVIL WAR HISTORY the Breckinridge-Lane ticket terminated Joe Lane's long and theretofore triumphant political career and he limped back to Oregon to be greeted as traitor by all but supporters of the Confederacy. Hendrickson wisely has not written a biography of Joseph Lane. Readers interested in Lane's years in the Indiana legislature and his role in the Mexican War may consult the full-scale biography by Sister M. Margaret Jean Kelly, The Career of Joseph Lane, Frontier Politician (1942). However , in part because Hendrickson is the first to use die Lane Collection in die Lilly Library of Indiana University and in part because of die sophistication and balance of his appraisal, this is the fullest and most reliable treatment we have of Joseph Lane and his political career after he left Indiana. In this scholarly and readable book James Hendrickson ably combines biography and political analysis. He effectively exploits the rich correspondence of Oregon figures such as Asahel Bush, Matthew P. Deady, and James W. Nesmidi so as to deliver the full pungency of pioneer politics . One device might have made the narrative easier to follow: a cast of major characters complete with their political affiliations. Edwin R. Bingham University of Oregon Eros and Freedom in Southern Life and Thought. By Earl E. Thorpe. (Durham: Seeman Printery, 1967. Pp. xii, 210. $7.75.) This interpretive study, whose chief emphasis is upon the nineteendi century , argues diat freedom is the central tiieme of soutiiem history. Reorienting...

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