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Sidney George Fisher son of James L. and Ann Eliza (George) Fisher, was born in Philadelphia, where he also died.
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"Invaluable…many insights into the life and thought of the nineteenth century…. Fisher's comments are stimulating, often barbed….the narrative is smooth-flowing and fascinating."-American Historical Review "An important literary event….an invaluable historical source. Unexcelled." -Pennsylvania History "Fisher was an astute and acerbic commentator on politics and society in Philadelphia, Washington, and the country as a whole during the Civil War. While legal, historical, and literary scholars will mine this diary for its penetrating insights, lovers of history will delight in Fisher's ability to record the quotidian and the monumental with clarity, force, and lasting effect."-Herman Belz, University of Maryland "An indispensable source for the Northern home front during the Civil War."-Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Pennsylvania State University An aristocratic member of a prominent Philadelphia family, Sidney George Fisher (1809-1871) was a prolific man of letters. Between 1834 and 1871, he kept a detailed diary that chronicled not only daily life in America's second city but also the key political, social, and cultural events of the nineteenth century. Published in 1967, Fisher's diary quickly became one of the most remarkable works of its kind; few published diaries are as incisive and illuminating of their era. This book makes available once again the pages of Fisher's diary written during the Civil War. As he wrote on November 9, 1861, "My diary has become little else than a record of the events of the war, which occupies all thoughts and conversation." His "record of the events" is a uniquely valuable portrait of a city, and a nation, at war. Fisher recorded everything from conversations on street corners to arrests of civilians for treason (including some members of his family), critiques of partisan speeches and pamphlets to descriptions of battles, accounts of runaway slaves, and tales of mob violence. At the same time, he reports on dinners, parties, weddings, and funerals among the city's elite. Brilliant journalism, the Diary is rich with Fisher's own observations- on secession, war and peace, on his admiration for Lincoln and his complicated feelings about slavery and emancipation. The Diary, with a new introduction by Jonathan W. White, joins those of George Templeton Strong and Mary Boykin Chesnut as classic windows on American life During the War Between the States. Jonathan W. White's articles on Civil War politics have appeared in such journals as Civil War History, American Nineteenth Century History, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and Pennsylvania History. Awarded a John T. Hubbell prize for the best article in Civil War History, he is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Cover illustrations: Cover design by Fordham University Press New York www.fordhampress.com
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Sidney George Fisher son of James L. and Ann Eliza (George) Fisher, was born in Philadelphia, where he also died.
He graduated from Dickinson College in 1827, read law under Joseph Ingersoll in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar a few weeks before he was twenty-one.
The routine of his law practise seems to have engrossed him for many years. About this time he became interested in farming, and devoting much of his time to Maryland plantations of his in Cecil and Kent counties, he adopted these two names as convenient signatures for his occasional contributions to the newspapers.
Rustic Rhymes, composed largely of two-and-three- stress lines, and The Law of the Territories, urging the retention of the Missouri Compromise, appeared in 1859. The next year, he published The Laws of Race as Connected with Slavery, an erudite plea for white supremacy, based to a great degree on his acceptance of slavery and his conviction that only people of “Saxon” derivation have any real desire for political freedom.
The Trial of the Constitution (1862), his most voluminous work, restates in 390 pages the doctrines he had already promulgated concerning the great national issues of his time. In the North American Review for July 1864 he published an article, later issued in a pamphlet, called “A National Currency, ” upholding in general the policy of the government in issuing legal-tender notes.
His son, named for him, with whom he has sometimes been confused, spelled his first name not Sidney, but Sydney.
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He made frequent addresses here and there before associations of farmers, advocating diversification of crops whenever he did not consider it more important to praise Daniel Webster, and to declare the idea of Union the one end to which all other political ideas in America should be made subservient.
By 1838 he had proceeded far enough in the world to be summoned back to make an address before his alma mater, and in 1851 he was married to Elizabeth Ingersoll.