Sacred Citizenship: Peter Cartwright and the Formation of Civic Responsibility in the Illinois Backcountry

Robert H. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Richard J. Carwardine, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997); Nathan O. Hatch and John H. Wigger, eds., Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture (Nashville, TN: John H. Wigger, Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 35. Jonathan Dixon, “Order and Spontaneity in the Office of Presiding Elder Peter Cartwright and the Growth of Nineteenth Century American Methodism” (PhD diss., Saint Louis University, 2000), 15; Wigger, Taking Heaven by Storm, 81–84. Hohlt notes that both men shared similar views on the main political issues of the day: slavery and the Mexican War. [...]it is unlikely that the contest itself triggered a lot of interest.