Oct 29, 2022 - 
Antebellum Realities, Myth of Saving the Union, No Compromise, Pleading for Peace, Recurring Southern Conservatism, Southern Conservatives, Southern Statesmen, Withdrawing from the Union 
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Antebellum Realities, Myth of Saving the Union, No Compromise, Pleading for Peace, Recurring Southern Conservatism, Southern Conservatives, Southern Statesmen, Withdrawing from the Union Comments Off on Unable to Settle the Great Differences Unable to Settle the Great Differences
“The South in 1860 knew only that the party which was hotly intolerant of the whole body of Southern institutions and interests had triumphed in the elections and was about to take possession of the government, and that it was morally impossible to preserve the Union any longer.
“If you who represent the stronger portion,” Senator John C. Calhoun stated in 1850, in words which perfectly convey this feeling in their quiet cadences, cannot agree to settle the great questions at issue on the broad principle of justice and duty, say so; and let the States we both represent agree to separate and depart in peace.” (Division and Reunion, 1829-1909. Woodrow Wilson. Longmans, Green and Co., 1912; pp. 209-210)