It Is In Vain To Say That Such Men And Women Have
No Strong Feeling On The Matter, And That They Are Praying, Working,
Fighting, And Talking Under Dictation.
Their hearts are in it.
And
judging from them, even though there were no other evidence from
which to judge, I have no doubt that a similar feeling is strong
through all the seceding States. On this subject the North, I
think, deceives itself in supposing that the Southern rebellion has
been carried on without any strong feeling on the part of the
Southern people. Whether the mob of Charleston be like the mob of
Baltimore I cannot tell; but I have no doubt as to the gentry of
Charleston and the gentry of Baltimore being in accord on the
subject.
In what way, then, when the question has been settled by the force
of arms, will these classes find themselves obliged to act? In
Virginia and Maryland they comprise, as a rule, the highest and best
educated of the people. As to parts of Kentucky the same thing may
be said, and probably as to the whole of Tennessee. It must be
remembered that this is not as though certain aristocratic families
in a few English counties should find themselves divided off from
the politics and national aspirations of their country-men, as was
the case long since with reference to the Roman Catholic adherents
of the Stuarts, and as has been the case since then in a lesser
degree with the firmest of the old Tories who had allowed themselves
to be deceived by Sir Robert Peel.
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