Paul Irvine’s Reviews > Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 > Status Update

I found it interesting that Northern industry was for enfranchising freed slaves in part because once the Southern states rejoined the Union, they’d skew industrial policies (eg tariffs) away from their preferred interests without a moderating voting bloc. Thus, the “capital” + “abolition-democracy” coalition was formed.

Interesting quote: “Here comes the penalty which a land pays when it stifles free speech and free discussion and turns itself over entirely to propaganda. It does not make any difference if at the time the things advocated are absolutely right, the nation, nevertheless, becomes morally emasculated and mentally hog-tied, and cannot evolve that healthy difference of opinion which leads to the discovery of truth…”