Was Secession Taught at West Point? (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Was Secession Taught at West Point? The following extracts from a few of the many publications that have recently appeared upon the question of the right of a state to secede from the American Union, and matters incident thereto, apparently not yet disposed of, will supply a suitable introduction to and the need for the text that is to follow. "Another erroneous view of the great struggle, very generally held in the North, is that the South waged the war to perpetuate slavery. Nothing could be further from the truth. The war was fought for constitutional liberty and slavery was only an incident to the great question." New York Times Book Review, Dec. 26, 1908, communicated. "This public opinion (now prevalent in the South) positively demands that teachers of history, both in the colleges and high schools, shall subscribe unreservedly to two trite oaths: (1) That the South was altogether right in seceding from the Union in 1861, and (2) that the war was not waged about the negro." "Historical scholarship has settled the fact that according to the interpretation of the American Constitution up to the time of the Civil War the Southern States did have the right to secede from the Union, " and General Adams adds, "The whole opposite contention from the days of Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster to 1860 is thus summarily dismissed." Foot note citation to "The Constitutional Ethics of Secession" by Genl. Charles Francis Adams. Proceedings Mass. Hist. Soc, p. 100, Jany. - March, 1903. "The reason" ("for the predominance of Southern views and ideals" at West Point) "runs back to several sources, one branch to the isolation of West Point." "The other deeper, more dangerous, procreative and far reaching to a text book on the Constitution by William Rawle of Philadelphia." James William Latta. First Lieutenant 119th Pennsylvania Infantry, September 1, 1862, Captain March 4, 1864, discharged to accept staff appointment May 19, 1864. Captain and Asst. Adjutant General U. S. Volunteers April 20, 1864, honorably mustered out January 20, 1866. Second Lieutenant 6th U. S. Infantry February 7, 1867, declined February 18, 1867. Brevetted Major U. S. Volunteers December 5, 1864, "for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Winchester, Va., and for his habitual good conduct and deportment on all the battle-fields of the campaign before Richmond, Va., " Lieut.-Colonel April 16, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services in the cavalry battles of Ebenezer Church, Ala., and Columbus, Ga." 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.