The History of the Confederate War, Vol. 2: Its Causes and Its Conduct, a Narrative and Critical History (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

George Cary Eggleston

9780332677262: The History of the Confederate War, Vol. 2: Its Causes and Its Conduct, a Narrative and Critical History (Classic Reprint)

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On the other hand a large proportion of the North ern people cared little or nothing about slavery many of them even approving the institution as the only practicable arrangement under which blacks and whites could live peaceably together, and as a condi tion eminently proper for the incapable black man. But these believed in the maintenance of the Union as a condition of liberty and progress, and were ready to sacrifice their lives and their possessions in behalf of that end.

Nevertheless it was clear from the beginning that in the last analysis, the war involved as its issue the maintenance of slavery, or the destruction of that system root and branch.

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