The Issues of the Hour, Political and Military: Being Reminiscences and Conclusions (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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"I feel that Republicanism is extinct in our country. We are ruled by an Oligarchy, and they are waiting only a convenient opportunity for setting aside the forms of Republicanism."

Such were the words, verbatim, of a slaveholding planter of Georgia - by name Davis - spoken to the writer on board the steamer from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Charleston, South Carolina, during the beautiful afternoon of the fourth of July, A. D., 1850.

In view of the circumstance that it was the concluding element of the most exciting day the writer had then experienced, a vivid recollection of the remark will not appear surprising, and its having proved itself the key to the greatest problem any people were ever required to solve, is sufficient occasion for making it the opening text of this discussion.

Mr. Davis had proved himself a sincere friend, a patriotic gentlemen, and a conscientious slavocrat. He, with two others, all entire strangers to the writer, had quelled the rising of a mob, upon the cars, which had threatened to lynch this Northerner, because, that while riding through the turpentine forest of North Carolina, before breakfast, on the morning of the Fourth of July, he had conversed with his seat-mate, a Carolinian, upon the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

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