[Secesh]

Sounds like a darned good reason to secede to me. Northern abolitionists attempting to start servile insurrections so white Southerners could be slaughtered. Such an insurrection earlier in Haiti resulted in the deaths of every white person on the island. Is this supposed to SUPPORT your argument, Drennan (i.e., "North, morally pure, South, scoundrels.")


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Therefore it is that the election of Mr. Lincoln cannot be regarded otherwise than a solemn declaration, on the part of a great majority of the Northern people, of hostility to the South, her property and her institutions-- nothing less than an open declaration of war-- for the triumph of this new theory of Government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations, and her wives and daughters to pollution and violation, to gratify the lust of half-civilized Africans. Especially is this true in the cotton-growing States, where, in many localities, the slave outnumbers the white population ten to one

[Drennan Whyte]

Fear of a political equality with free blacks was a common tool used by Confederate leadership in order to whip up hatred of the North. Fear of slave rebellion was another tool and was also used as an excuse for keeping local militia in place during the war. Militia which, conveniently enough, provided a way for thousands of Southern men to avoid conscription and active service. In fact, there were no slave uprisings during the war and no evidence that the North ever tried to forment one.