The Government of the South by the Plain People
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Excerpt from The Government of the South by the Plain People: An Address Delivered to the Faculty and Students of Berea College, Ky;, On May 1, 1905 Like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln never troubled himself about his ancestors. But what he meant by the plain people that "God seems to have a liking for," as far as related to the South, was the five or six millions of white folk that in 1860 in these fifteen States had never in any way been concerned with the ownership of negro slaves. From the beginning these Southerners who were not slaveholders had formed by far the larger proportion of the white population. They fought the battles of the South - first in clearing the land of the "noble savage"; then supplying the bulk of its loyal populations in the Revolution; driving the crack regiments of Wellington and Waterloo into the sea at New Orleans, under "plain" Andrew Jackson; afterwards wresting the empire of Texas from Mexico and expanding the Republic towards the Southwest to the Pacific Ocean; and, finally, under General Robert E. Lee, through four terrible years, following their leaders from Charlestown to Appomattox with a devotion and courage so magnificent that nothing but the deplorable cause for which they fought could have caused their defeat. But indeed what we call, by a figure of English speech, the "Southern Aristocracy" was not wholly aristocratic. 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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