Excerpt from The Cause of the War: Who Brought It On, and for What Purpose? Now, I do not choose to make so bold a statement as this without giving some evidence to sustain my assertion. Having changed my political sentiments as little as any other man, I feel confident that I have facts enough to prove the correctness of my position. The adverse party charge that this is an Abolition war. They say that the Abolitionists of the North have harassed and goaded into frenzy the Southern people, until they have been driven to ...
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Excerpt from The Cause of the War: Who Brought It On, and for What Purpose? Now, I do not choose to make so bold a statement as this without giving some evidence to sustain my assertion. Having changed my political sentiments as little as any other man, I feel confident that I have facts enough to prove the correctness of my position. The adverse party charge that this is an Abolition war. They say that the Abolitionists of the North have harassed and goaded into frenzy the Southern people, until they have been driven to adopt a scheme which is not at all native to their dis positions. Now, I have said as much against the Abolition party of the North as almost any man, as early, and I believe as sincerely, too; and I have nothing yet to say in praise of the principles of that party. I dissent from them as much as ever. I never thought them altogether evil, or all disunionists or fanatics. I thought them 111 grievous error, and think so still; and though I cautioned the people of Ohio, in times past, of the evil tendency of arraying section against section, I must now declare that I don't believe this party has had anything to do in getting up this war, except being used as a sham and a lie on the part of the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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