Baylor Heath’s Reviews > Democracy: A Very Short Introduction > Status Update

“When the civil war broke out, conservative opinion all over Europe had said, ‘Told ya so.’ Democracy would result in anarchy. But the victory of the North, the emancipation of the slaves, economic strength of Northen industry, the patriotism of citizen armies, & the speeches of Lincoln gave them an answer: a democratic, capitalist society had triumphed over the agrarian cottonnocracy of plantation owners.”