A Letter to a Friend in the Slave State (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A Letter to a Friend in the Slave State (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Ingersoll and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Letter to a Friend in the Slave State If then the forces are of nearly equal numbers, and equally well led, how ought we to count the chances, the question being the conquest of the Southern States? In Missouri, Kentucky and other States, where, divided in opinion, they resist the secession movement, Northern armies find a coun try in which, no more being necessary than to give military aid to the well-affected part of the population, conquest is not in question: but the vast region comprising Western Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Eastern Virginia, have to be brought to submission by the sword. I do not mean, by the sword, the sort of ruin like that of the iron pot coming against the earthen one - which must ensue to them at last, as cc-terminous neighbors of a hostile people, stouter, stronger, richer and more numerous than themselves - but military subjugation. 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.