Copyright © 2011 Bob R Bogle
Many continue to maintain that the Civil War was not fought over slavery but over States Rights, as though the latter term were not a subverting synonym for the former.
The time has arrived when the people of the South must prepare either to abandon or to fortify and maintain [slavery]. Abandon it we cannot, interwoven as it is with our wealth, prosperity, and domestic happiness.
Call for a Referendum on a Tennessee Secession Convention, Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris, 7 January 1861
Spoken with no sense of irony or shame. http://americancivilwar.com/documents/isham_harris.html
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