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More than one out of three Confederates whose campfires dotted South Mountain in the June dusk owned slaves or were the sons of households owning slaves, and more than half of their officers were slave owners.
The slave system had invested them with an instinctive impulse for domestic dictatorship; they could brawl, stab, and shoot, in and out of race tracks and saloons, and still assume that they were God’s natural aristocrats.
There, by 7:30, the Federal advance slowed to a stop, and a headlong attempt by the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry to overrun the rebel artillery collapsed into a melee of Union and Confederate horsemen, popping away with revolvers or hacking futilely at each other with sabers.19 Alf
triggered an international incident over an island in Puget Sound,
And the fences were merely the mute resistance of free men and free soil to the invasion of slavery, which few people would heed until it was too late.
that the most ordinary of people had been created with the same set of natural rights as the most extraordinary, that no one was born either with crowns upon their heads or saddles upon their backs.
Let an issue arise which posed real challenges, and the “experiment” would be revealed as a fraud.
Something here. I feel as though this sentiment dominatedb the post wwi world . Wherr nominallynmich of the world was ruled in name by representatvies. At the dame timebthisnioenednthe ndoor for back slidign. Not sure where o go exigences for a call to reinvigorte thenrepublic.
But now came the moment when the evil eye of the aristocrats began to gleam, since the people of the slaveholding states proclaimed a predictably democratic unwillingness to be disagreed with, and used that unwillingness to pull down the entire house.
a refusal to abide by the rules of democracy and an aboveboard national election.
