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“When still a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, he referred to a hostile opponent who had entered the chamber as “the thing which has crawled into this House and adheres to one of the seats by its own slime.”
― Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
― Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
“In North Carolina, for example, circulars warned that continued statehood in the Union would bring emancipation, which would mean “having three hundred thousand idle, vagabond free negroes turned loose upon you with all the privileges of white men—voting with you; sitting on juries with you; going to school with your children, and intermarrying with the white race.”
― The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
― The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
“In fact, about five thousand white North Carolinians served in Union uniforms over the course of the war. Three thousand white Alabamians did the same thing, as did seven thousand white Louisianans and ten thousand white Arkansans. Virginia alone (especially its western counties) supplied some thirty thousand recruits. The largest single contingent hailed from Tennessee—some forty-two thousand in number.”
― The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
― The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
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