Excerpt from A Southern Historian's Appeal for Horace GreeleyThe confusions of a great political controversy that is at last to be decided by the people, are never as hopeless as they seem. Notwith standing all the refinements and complications which the ingenuity Of argument mav impose in such controversy, despite all it may do to daiken counsel, it will be found that some. Plain dominant facts will invariably rise above these refinements, emerge ti om the ambitious con fusion Of debate, and govern the popular decision. Lhe popular mind. Indeed, is but little alfcctcd by either the ingenuity or accumulation Of arguments in any cause given to its judgment these may serve their purposes in answering the intellectual wants of a few, or in occupying 'the professional arenas of debate, but generally a few blunt facts which the skill of the dialectician can in no wise control, which are simply iii contestable, suffice to determine the verdict Of the people. This simplification of a vexed controversy at the last, the limitation Of it which the popular mind makes to a few governing facts, its summary practice Of decision in this respect, have been frequently illustrated in the history Of our political contests, and, if we are not greatly mistaken, we are about to Obtain a new and striking example of it in the attempted elaboration of the impending Presidential campaign, where one single plain tact already overrides the confused prospect, and promises to be decisive of a contest that otherwise it will be quite needless to burden with argument.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.