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American Peace Society

File:Arthur Deerin Call, American Peace Society, 1913.jpg of the American Peace Society, 1913]]

File:James L. Tryon of MIT in 1916.jpg (1864–1958) of the American Peace Society in 1916. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ]]

The American Peace Society is a pacifist group founded upon the initiative of William Ladd, in New York City, May 8, 1828. It was formed by the merging of many state and local societies, from New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, of which the oldest, the New York Peace Society, dated from 1815. Ladd was an advocate of a "Congress and High Court of Nations." The society organized peace conferences and regularly published a periodical entitled Advocate of Peace.

The Society was only opposed to wars between nation states; it did not oppose the American Civil War,

regarding the Union's war as a "police action" against the "criminals" of

the Confederacy.Peter Brock,

Pacifism in the United States: from the colonial era to the First World War. Princeton University Press, 1968 (p. 691).Valarie H. Ziegler,The advocates of peace in antebellum America Mercer University Press, 2001

{{ISBN|0865547262}} (p.158). Its most famous leader was Benjamin Franklin Trueblood (1847–1916), a Quaker who in his book The Federation of the World (1899) called for the establishment of an international state to bring about lasting peace in the world. In 1834 the headquarters of the society were removed to Hartford, in 1834 to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1911 to Washington, D.C.New International Encyclopedia The group is now based in Washington. Its official journal is World Affairs.

The American Peace Society house, its headquarters from 1911 to 1948 near the White House, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.

The American Peace Society was opposed to Zionism on the grounds of internationalism.{{cite magazine |author= |title=Zionism is a Backward Step |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_world-affairs-us_1907-02_69_2/page/32/ |magazine=Advocate of Peace |location=Boston |publisher=The American Peace Society |publication-date=February 1907 |volume=LXIX |issue=2 |page=32 |access-date=2024-01-03}}

History

In 1833, their office was listed as 129 Nassau Street in New York City, NY.{{Cite web|title=Peace Society office at 129 Nassau-street, New-York 1833 - Newspapers.com|url=http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/92417893/peace-society-office-at-129/|access-date=2022-01-12|website=Brooklyn Public Library|language=en}} As of 1834 the society operated from headquarters on Wall Street in New York City.{{citation |title= American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory |publisher=Thomas Longworth |location=New York |year=1834 |hdl = 2027/njp.32101066152404}} In Boston it worked from offices on Cornhill (ca.1840s–1850s);Boston Directory. 1848, 1861Boston almanac. 1852 Chauncey Street (ca.1864);Boston Directory. 1864 Winter Street (ca.1868–1869);Boston Directory. 1868, 1869 and Somerset Street (ca.1870s–1890s).Boston almanac. 1894 Annual meetings took place in various venues in Boston, including Park Street Church (1851).Rufus Wheelwright Clark. An address delivered before the American Peace Society at its annual meeting, May 26, 1851. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LyQMAAAAIAAJ Google books] Officers included George C. Beckwith, William Jay, Howard Malcom, John Field, William C. Brown.Massachusetts State Record and Year Book. 1850Boston Directory. 1869

Notable people

See also

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Footnotes

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  • Oxford Dictionary of the U.S. Military. Oxford University Press, 2001
  • Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940

Further reading

=Issued by the society=

  • Advocate of Peace. Published in Hartford: [https://books.google.com/books?id=At8BAAAAYAAJ v.1-2] (1834–1836). Published in Boston: [https://books.google.com/books?id=rMUBAAAAYAAJ v.3-4] (1839–1842); [https://books.google.com/books?id=I28PAAAAIAAJ v.11] (1854). New series [https://books.google.com/books?id=FtwBAAAAYAAJ v.7-9] (1876–1878). Published in Washington, DC: [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ad8BAAAAYAAJ v.84] (1922). Also called Advocate of Peace Through Justice
  • [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011569851 via HathiTrust]; also [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100370104 here] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009992360 here]
  • Thomas Hancock. The principles of peace: exemplified in the conduct of the Society of Friends in Ireland, during the rebellion of the year 1798, with some preliminary and concluding observations. 1843
  • Walter Channing. Thoughts on peace and war: An address delivered before the American Peace Society at its annual meeting, May 27, 1844.
  • [http://mises.org/books/bookofpeace.pdf The Book of Peace]. Boston: George Beckwith, 1845.
  • William Jay. An address delivered before the American Peace Society at its annual meeting, May 26, 1845.
  • Charles Sumner. The war system of the commonwealth of nations: an address before the American Peace Society, at its anniversary in Boston, May 28, 1849. 1854. [https://archive.org/details/warsystemcommon00sumngoog Internet Archive]
  • Rufus W. Clark. An address delivered before the American Peace Society at its annual meeting, May 26, 1851.
  • Angel of Peace. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FtwBAAAAYAAJ v.5-8] (1876–1878). Children's magazine.

=About the society=

  • The Calumet. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2WwAAAAAMAAJ v.2] (1834–1835)
  • James Libby Tryon. The Rise of the Peace Movement. Yale Law Journal, Vol. 20, No. 5 (Mar., 1911), pp. 358–371
  • The American Peace Society: A Centennial History by Edson L. Whitney (1928)
  • {{cite book

| author = John Benedict Buescher

| author-link =

| year = 2005

| contribution = American Peace Society

| editor-last = Karsten

| editor-first = Peter

| editor-link = Peter Karsten

| title = Encyclopedia of War and American Society

| edition = 1st

| location = Thousand Oaks, CA

| publisher = SAGE Publications

| volume = 1

| pages = 36–38

| isbn = 0-7619-3097-3}}

External links

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  • [https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/scpc-dg-003 American Peace Society Records, 1828–1947], housed at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection
  • [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009013283/ Library of Congress]. Photo of Philip Marshall Brown of the American Peace Society, Washington, D.C., May 1, 1939. Harris & Ewing, photographer
  • [http://www.john-uebersax.com/plato/peace1.htm Literature from the antebellum American peace movement]

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