This pretense for secession would not have been concurred in by any of the states north of South Carolina, but for the previous agitation of slavery, which had welded nearly all the slaveholding states into a compact confederacy.
Sherman argues that the pretense for secession was largely influenced by the agitation surrounding slavery, which united slaveholding states.
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If that party had been content with the compromise of 1850, and had faithfully observed the pledges in its platform, there would have been no Civil War.
What boy did not feel the gushings of patriotic emotion when one of these old veterans appeared upon the stage.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
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