The South staked all upon getting possession of the Federal Government, and failing to do that, drew the sword of rebellion and thus made her own, and not Brown's, the lost cause of the century.
Douglass critiques the South's strategy in the Civil War, highlighting their failure and the consequences of rebellion.
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