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Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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the South and the vast area immediately to thewestward; and slavery ever demanding new and fresh soil,compelled the men of the South to take up lands at everyaccessible point. The second tier of southern States, thenew South of the early years of the Republic, comprisedonly a greater Virginia, a greater Carolina, a greaterGeorgia; and the third tier of slave States, Louisiana,Arkansas and Missouri, and later Texas, was largely peopledfrom the second tier. The same conviction as to slaveryprevailed in Texas as in Virginia. And if the southernplanter found himself thinking on the disappearance ofslavery, he also found himself confronted by an even moreserious problem—What should be done with the negro? It was an easy matter to adjust moral sentiments to slaverystandards. Slavery existed among the Hebrews and at thetime Christ was on earth; the Bible tolerates slavery andthe Founder of Christianity did not pronounce against it.But behind even evidence of such a character, the southern
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-a 2 bl3 o THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE 33 mind could see the necessity for slavery. The question—What will become of the South without slavery? seemedunanswerable. There came a time too when slavery assumed the pro-portions, the solidity, the naturalness, the essentiality of aninstitution. No man could remember the South withoutslavery; few men could conceive of the South withoutslavery. With all its perils, its cares, its unprofitableness,—for it was not equally profitable throughout the South—its political strength, its sources of weakness to the South,after weighing it in every aspect under which it appeared tothe slaveholder, slavery was an essential element to a formof industrial life such as prevailed at the South: it meantfood and clothing and comfort and ease and pleasure, yes,life itself to the Southerner. To propose to strip the Northof its domestic animals, freeing the oxen from tHe plow andthe horses from the wagon, would have been resented at theNorth even with less res

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