Excerpt from The Cause of Freedom: Which Is Its Champion in America, the North or the South? This is no place to argue the matter, but that is the truth; and no man who so believes has a right to shrink from stating his belief at such a time as the present. I can only say for myself, that for many years I have been deeply interested in American politics, and have glven all the time I could spare to the study of them, and am more and more convinced every day of the truth of the v1ews here put forth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.