Slavery the Mere Pretext for the Rebellion
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Excerpt from Slavery the Mere Pretext for the Rebellion: Not Its Cause The following article is copied from a Kentucky paper The Louisville Journal), in which it appeared at an early stage of the Rebellion. It is from the pen of one whose name often occurs in Parton´s Life of Jackson, in connections showing the affectionate confidence entertained for him by the old hero of the Hermitage. Although specially addressed at that juncture to the people of Tennessee, with reference to the efforts then making by the conspirators to trepan that State into subserviency to their scheme of treason, the question here put will at once be felt by every true American heart to be one for which it has a ready answer. The prediction of "Old Hickory," here seen to have been made by him Thirty Years Ago, as to what would be "the next Pretext" used by the conspirators then already known by him to be plotting the destruction of "the only good Government on the globe," in order that they might build up their "Southern Confederacy" upon their country´s ruins. That prediction forms a fitting introduction to the more recent character and designs of the same conspiracy, as depicted in the following pages by Paul Ambrose: To the Editors of the Louisville Journal: "Never take the field unless the Star-spangled Banner of your Country floats over your head." You have recently reproduced the above words of Andrew Jackson, addressed during the secession-ordinance days of thirty years ago, to the people of South Carolina, his native State, as he believed, and as we all believed, until his biographer Parton established the title of North Carolina to the honor of having given the "old Roman" to our country. Your reproduction of them has suggested to me to send you some other words of his, no less pertinent to the solemnity of the present crisis in that country´s fate. A photographic fac-simile of the original letter (of the entire letter, which is quite a long one) has come into my possession. No one acquainted with General Jackson´s handwriting - and I am perfectly so - could hesitate to make oath to its genuineness. Upon first seeing it, the gentleman who sent it to me having stated in the note accompanying it that he "inclosed a copy of Gen. Jackson´s letter," I exclaimed to my family, "Why he has made a mistake and sent me the very letter itself; I will swear to this being the General´s handwriting, every word of it." In truth, however, it is only a fac-simile taken by the photographic process. 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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