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Jun 04, 2014 12:28AM
James L. Petrigu, a South Carolinian who opposed secession in 1860, said that, 'South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum'. [Quoted in James McPherson, Drawn with the Sword, p. 37] If he were alive today, I think he would argue that, 'Northern Ireland is too small to be a country, but too big to be an asylum for the morally insane'.
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James McPherson on popular writing about the ACW, 'the trend in recent years has been to write more and more about less and less'. [Drawn with the Sword, p. 244]
In response to the assertion made by one person from South Carolina that, 'Freedom is not possible without slavery', the historian James McPherson made the following observation: 'George Orwell need not have created the fictional world of 1984 to describe Newspeak. He could have found it in the South Carolina of 1861.' [Drawn with the sword, p. 51.]
