The Motives And Aims of the Soldiers of the South in the Civil War
The book The Motives And Aims of the Soldiers of the South in the Civil War was written by author Mckim, Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison), 1842-1920 Here you can read free online of The Motives And Aims of the Soldiers of the South in the Civil War book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Motives And Aims of the Soldiers of the South in the Civil War a good or bad book?
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That was the faith they had received from their fathers, from a long line of illustrious statesmen and political philosophers. Of this let one decisive ex- ample suffice. Though Robert E. Lee abhorred the idea of secession and loved the Union with a passionate devotion, yet when he was asked by a member of a committee of Congress whether he did not consider that he was guilty of treason in drawing his sword in behalf of the South, he answered : " No, I believed m)^ allegiance was due to the Sta...te of Virginia." The people of the South believed, as we have said, that gov- ernment derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. The}' believed the General Government had no rightful power of coercion. Their New England brethren had for man}' years confirmed them in that belief. Moreover they believed a union by force not the Union which the fathers had in view. A gov- ernmental fabric pinned together by bayonets did not seem to them a republic, but a- despotism. 4th. I come now to consider the opinion, so widely held, that the South plunged into a desperate war for the purpose of perpet- uating slavery, and made that institution the cornerstone of the new confederacy which it sought to establish.
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