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"Your New-York bankers and merchants are shrewd people, but I never gave them credit for so much sagacity as when they took the Government Loan. It was not merely patriotism, it was a high stroke of policy. It has saved the Government, and what they will regard as equally important, saved them from a great financial disaster."
A prominent Lost Cause advocacy web site gives significant band-width to a person with Lost Cause sympathies to rant against a book and author who writes how the Lost Cause came about.
Why does it seem to have any more significance than the numerous other such articles at this site and pike your interest enough to post it here?
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Last edited by unionblue : 06-03-2007 at 01:34 PM.
After all, it is only a polemical essay, 'about' Nolan's historical views..
Just for the heck of it, another historian's opinion:
"To the old Union they had said that the Federal power had no authority to interfere with slavery issues in a state. To their new nation they would declare that the state had no power to interfere with a federal protection of slavery. Of all the many testimonials to the fact that slavery, and not states rights, really lay at the heart of their movement, this was the most eloquent of all."
William C. Davis, Look Away: A History of the Confederate States of America, pages 97-98
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