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Excerpt from History of Virginia, Vol. 2 of 6: The Federal Period, 1763-1861
This volume has been written under the idea that Virginia was the original center of Southern development, just as New England was the original center of Northern development. Divergent as these two centers were, they were forced into union by/british oppression. In all the social and political features that characterized this incongruous connection the Southern center was dominant for nearly 100 years. This volume embraces this remarkable period (17 63 It may be emphatically styled Virginia's golden age and perhaps it was the golden age of the United States. Certainly no other state in history ever produced within so short a period such a multitude of great men or accomplished such wonderful re sults. Among these last was the continuance of the Union itself through so long a time. It is pointed out that speedy secession has the natural consequence of such an impossible combination, and yet through the idealism of the Virginia statesmen this combination was maintained till the Northern in?uences were too strong to make separation successful. The South was overwhelmed, and a mighty and prosperous nation took the place of a jarring union, made great by the idealism of Virginia. Virginia fell a sacrifice to what might be called a suicidal policy, but shorn of her in?uence in national affairs she still lives in the best and most glorious principles of the.
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