While I am able to say that they have made up their minds that Emancipation is a fact, and not to be avoided, I am obliged to state my earnest opinion, that, so far as secession is concerned,--that is, the doctrine of State Rights,--it is more deeply rooted than ever among them.
Sumner discusses the Southern perspective on Emancipation and State Rights post-Civil War.
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