Drum-Beat of the Nation
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Excerpt from Drum-Beat of the Nation: The First Period of the War of the Rebellion From Its Outbreak to the Close of 1862 Nearly a third of a century has rolled away since the outbreak of the war between the northern and southern sections of the United States, known in history as the War of the Rebellion. Since then a generation has come upon the active stage of life. One-fourth of the inhabitants of the United States at the present time have no personal knowledge of the war, and to fully one-half it is but a dim and fading memory. The conflict was one of the mightiest of all time, waged between people having a common ancestry, speaking the same language, living three-fourths of a century under the same flag, attaining an exalted position among the nations, and looking forward to a great and unexampled destiny. In 1860 thirty-three States composed the United States of America. Of these, fifteen permitted the holding of slaves. The slave-holders living in the States which produced cotton brought about the secession of their respective States from the Union, seized forts, arsenals, cannon, ships, and other property belonging to the United States. South Carolina was the first to withdraw, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, which united to form a Confederacy of States, electing Jefferson Davis President. North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Virginia soon after withdrew from the Union and joined the Confederacy. The slave-holders put forth as a justification of their action the claim that some of the original and reserved rights of the slave-holding States were not protected under the Constitution. Of the seceding States, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia took part in the formation of the Constitution. Alabama and Mississippi were originally a part of Georgia, and claimed that any original right that belonged to Georgia inhered to them upon their admission. Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas had been created from territory purchased from Spain and France after the formation of the Constitution, and could put forth no such plea; neither could Tennessee, which had been created from territory owned by the United States. Texas had been annexed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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