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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 4: (search)
ry power compact and invincible. another apology for Lincoln's election. fallacy of regarding it as a transfer of the Administration in equal circumstances from the South to the North. how the South had used its lease of political power. Senator Hammond's tribute. power in the hands of the North equivalent to sectional despotism. the North acting in mass. the logical necessity of disunion The wisest statesmen of America were convinced that the true and intelligent means of continuinorth, sought nothing from it, desired to disturb nothing in it. It had no aggressive intent: it stood constantly on the defensive. It had no sectional history: it was associated with a general prosperity of the country. Do not forget, said Senator Hammond of South Carolina, when Mr. Seward boasted in the United States Senate that the North was about to take control at Washington,--it can never be forgotten — it is written on the brightest page of human history — that we, the slaveholders of t