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The Solid South
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It is undeniably true that the political attitude of the Southern people toward the government, is directly ascribable to the swift bestowal by the reconstruction acts of unlimited marr hood suffrage upon members of the African race uthe emancipa tion of the slaves, whatever may be believed to the contrary, was far less consequential. After Appomattox, none so visionary who did not know that slavery was at an end. The thirteenth amendment making human bondage forever impossible was rati fied by the original constituency of the states lately in secession, by the votes of those men whose bayonets for four years had upheld the fortunes of the Confederate States. Thirty-one years ago I listened at the University of Georgia to a carefully pre pared oration by Senator Benjamin' H. Hill, perhaps the foremost Southern man of that day. After stating that for more than thirty years Southern genius had been chained by some cffended god of jealous vengeance to the solid rock of slavery, he exclaimed in tones that yet ring in my memory.
It is undeniably true that the political attitude of the Southern people toward the government, is directly ascribable to the swift bestowal by the reconstruction acts of unlimited marr hood suffrage upon members of the African race uthe emancipa tion of the slaves, whatever may be believed to the contrary, was far less consequential. After Appomattox, none so visionary who did not know that slavery was at an end. The thirteenth amendment making human bondage forever impossible was rati fied by the original constituency of the states lately in secession, by the votes of those men whose bayonets for four years had upheld the fortunes of the Confederate States. Thirty-one years ago I listened at the University of Georgia to a carefully pre pared oration by Senator Benjamin' H. Hill, perhaps the foremost Southern man of that day. After stating that for more than thirty years Southern genius had been chained by some cffended god of jealous vengeance to the solid rock of slavery, he exclaimed in tones that yet ring in my memory.
31 pages, Paperback
First published September 27, 2015
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