Author: A. MayoPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484218368
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Excerpt from The Third Estate of the South But, in the American political sense, there was and has been, up to the present time, a dominant class in this portion of the coun try more powerful for all the issues of public life than any order of nobility in Europe since the French Revolution. It was, pri marily, a combination of land-holders; practically, an aristocracy of the dollar. From the peculiar condition of the country and its monopoly of certain industrial products, the people of the South adopted and tied itself to the system of slave labor, cast off by the North as unprofitable, impolitic, and dangerous at the formation of the Republic. Whatever of anti-slavery sentiment - and there was a great deal - lingered in the early history of these States was swept down stream by the gathering tide of the dominating industrial and political interests. So it came to pass, in time, that a great combination of men, separated from each other by abysses of social, religious, and educational repulsions, found common cause in the protection of slavery in the old and its introduction to the new Southern and South-western States. The diaries and correspondence of Judge Story and John Quincy Adams, during their early years in Washington, are full of this observation of the formidable power of this combination, - its skilful handling of Congress, its invariable success in every conflict with a half-con scious and divided North. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
