The South

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Excerpt from The South: An Address Delivered Our native South, the "Land we love, " finds herself in new and unlooked for times. Her tranquil and happy past was rudely broken by one of those epochs of which history is full - sudden revulsions in the life of a people, when that which is, terminates, and that which is to be begins. Such moments of transition, of brief revolution, are the landmarks of great eras, following one upon another they are the giant steps by which nations mount to a higher destiny, they are never found upon the smooth descent which leads to degradation, no serrated epochs jar the easy movement of the downward bound! How short a time ago does it seem that with gay colors fluttering in a favoring breeze, we sailed out from peace and affluence to dare the storms of war. Adventurers into unknown seas, tempest-tossed and disheartened, we have been thrown upon undesired shores, and all the hopes in which we embarked have been shattered, and now lie stranded before our desponding eyes. It is not unnatural that our minds should be unsettled and our apprehensions excited, old oracles are silent, precedents cannot be applied, startling phenomena in government and society present themselves, we feel wants that we do not understand and cannot supply, we are alarmed by portents which we are not able to interpret. To obtain a respite from these anxieties by musing on the past and dreaming of its restoration, has been too tempting to be resisted, but it is no longer permitted tons to indulge in dreams, nor to linger beside the old wrecks, which can never carry us back whence we came. 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.