Excerpt from The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 4: January to October, 1905 As Southerners we ought to be proud of our people as well as proud of our common country. I believe that the mighty founders and builders of this republic were largely Southern men. George Washington, himself our greatest American, was also our greatest Southerner, and while his great gifts of mind and character were a part of his inheritance from our common English race, the peculiar type of the man was due to his mem hership in a Southern community and was characteristic of the best in Southern life. Jefferson, another Southerner, was the author of the Declaration of Independence; and Madison was the father of the Constitution; while Marshall left an enduring stamp upon the federal judiciary. 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.