Excerpt from The Fight for the Republic: A Narrative of the More Note-Worthy Events
The civil War of 1861-"65 in the the United States was a gigantic drama, with no mummery, no painted scenery, no limelight illusion, no artificial thunder, no guarded sword points, no imaginary daggers, no simulated passions; it was all dead earnest powder and steel, destruction, blood, suffering, and sorrow triumph in the end, but triumph with nameless graves in the foreground and desolate homes beyond. This drama was set forth on a stage of a million square miles; and with its distinct motive, its dash of theories and interests, its critical situations, its development of latent powers, its alternations of expectation and disappointment, its plotters and its heroes, its undercurrent setting steadily in the same direction and finally bringing to a decisive conclusion - with all these elements involved, it was aspect a drama as poet ever penned and players ever presented.
The causes that brought it to pass are all plainly written in open history. If it were desired to limit these causes mainly to the action of individuals, three men must be mentioned - a certain sea-captain, a Connecticut inventor, and a South Carolina statesman. In 1619 a Dutch vessel sailed into James River with a cargo of African slaves, which was the beginning of a large and continuous importation.
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