Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Slavery and Secession in America: Historical and Economical
We have the word of Southerners themselves that it is the fear of Northern interference with slavery alone which hasi been the cause of the present hostile attitude of the cotton States; Two years ago it was foreseen that an anti-slavery President would reign at Washington, and Messrs. Davis and Stephens (now President and vice-president respectively of the Southern Confederacy) declared that in case events should turn out as anticipated, the Union would be dissolved, simply because under a Republican Executive the property of the South would no. Longer be secure.
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