The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates<br><br>The Federal principle ultimately fatal to the Union. - Other causes of disunion. - The sectional animosity. - The geographical line in the Union - How the differences between North and South produced two distinct communities instead of rival parties within one body politic. - The theory of a Political North and a Political South. Its early recognition in the Convention of - Declaration of Madison - Mr. Pinekney''s remarks - How the same theory was involved in the Constitution. The Treaty clause between North and South - The Union not the bond of diverse States but the rough companionship of two peoples - Gen. Siillivan''s complaint to Washington. - The Slavery question an incident of the sectional animosity. Not an independent controversy or a moral dispute - Political history of Negro Slavery in the South - How it become the subject of dispute - The Hartford Con vention - The Missouri Line the preliminary trace of disunion. - Declaration of Thomas J efi''erson. - Why the North defamed the peculiar institution of the South. - Great benefits of this institution and its contributions to the world. Slavery.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.