The Southern Question Past and Present (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Southern Question Past and Present (Classic Reprint) written by Richard P. Hallowell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Southern Question Past and Present Mr. President and Grentlemen of the Historical Society, - When our fathers gave slavery recognition in the United States Constitution they provided a curse for our inheritance. It retarded our national growth, it debauched public opinion, it developed prejudice against the negro that turned men into devils. It established and maintained an oligarchy in the South before which Northern statesmen crouched like whipped spaniels. When at last the suppression of abolitionists and the complete overthrow of freedom was presented to us as the only alternative to a disruption of the Union, even such men as Abraham Lincoln hastened to assure the haughty slavemasters of their willingness to bind their wretched victims with heavier manacles. The war for the preservation of the Union began in 1861. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.