Excerpt from The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates The Federal principle ultimately fatal to the Union. - Other causes of disunion. - The sectional animosity. - The geographical line in the Union - How the differences between North and South produced two distinct communities instead of rival parties within one body politic. - The theory of a Political North and a Political South. Its early recognition in the Convention of - Declaration of Madison - Mr. Pinekney's remarks - How the same theory was involved in the Constitution. The Treaty clause between North and South - The Union not the bond of diverse States, but the rough companionship of two peoples - Gen. Siillivan's complaint to Washington. - The Slavery question, an incident of the sectional animosity. Not an independent controversy, or a moral dispute - Political history of Negro Slavery in the South - How it become the subject of dispute - The Hartford Con vention - The Missouri Line, the preliminary trace of disunion. - Declaration of Thomas J efi'erson. - Why the North defamed the peculiar institution of the South. - Great benefits of this institution, and its contributions to the world. Slavery. 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.