Excerpt from The False Nation and Its Bases: Or Why the South Can't Stand

A word or two is necessary here, on the wider subject, of which the False Nation is but a subordinate part.

The South has in it two principles, -democracy and Oli garchy, and three constituent element s, -the Slave Barons, of whom there were about the Mean Whites, and the Negroes. Its Principles and Interests are con¿icting, and contradictory. To carry Secession, it overrode the Demo. Cratic provisions and rights in every Southern Constitution, but, although it has, to a great extent, compromised Southern Democracy, it has not destroyed it.

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