The Rebel General's Loyal Bride: a True Picture of Scenes in the Late Civil War
The book The Rebel General's Loyal Bride: a True Picture of Scenes in the Late Civil War was written by author Wilmer, Richard Hooker, 1918-, Former Owner Here you can read free online of The Rebel General's Loyal Bride: a True Picture of Scenes in the Late 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 Rebel General's Loyal Bride: a True Picture of Scenes in the Late Civil War a good or bad book?
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I believed in State rights, and that, when Virginia went into the Union, she reserved the riglit to secede ' when- ever that Union should be perverted to the injury or op- pression of her people.' Slavery had come down to us with our estates from past generations. I felt it to be an evil, and a wrong to the human race ; but to us it seemed to be a necessary wrong. We could not fling it off like an old garment. It was our capital, our support, — the foundation of our prosperity, and yet our curs...e. " To get rid of it without bloodshed would have in- volved one of the most difficult problems for human solution. To do it at the Xorth, where there were but a few slaves, was easy enough ; but, where they composed more than a third of the whole population, it was another matter. We could not agree to abolish it among ourselves ; that was impossible : yet we felt as if the North had no business to interfere with our pecu- liar institutions. We thought we had been defamed, wronged, and had terms dictated to us too much by your Northern people in Congress.
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