Excerpt from The Disunionist: A Brief Treatise Upon the Evils of the Union Between the North and the South, and the Propriety of Separation and the Formation of a Southern United States
It would be almost impossible to write an article upon political subjects in this country without stating some facts and arguments that have been stated before. Hence it is not pretended that all the thoughts contained in this treatise are original or new.
A large and extended work upon the subject of disunion would not be read by the mass of people, for the reason that the cost of publishing it would raise the price so high that many would not buy it; while others, for want of time and indifference to the subject, would be deterred by the size of the book from reading it.
Some of the learned in political lore might have been gratified to see some of the chapters of this extended to the size of the whole book; but such persons need not books to aid them in forming conclusions. It was the object in writing this to condense facts, and arguments founded thereon, and bring them down to a compass that all might read, understand, and remember. To inform the judgment of the people is the only mode sought in this of producing action. The subject requires dispassionate investigation in order to arrive at truth.
While the author professes no love for the people of the non-slave-holding States, it would be as unjust to attribute his motives to hatred toward them as to personal disappointment on his own part. I love the South, her people, and institutions; and feel that she has been deeply wronged; that her condition in the Union is that of deplorable dependence and subordination, and that there is no just grounds for us to hope for relief from abject slavery as a people, except in Southern independence.
The people may investigate the facts and come to a different conclusion, but in doing so they will certainly see enough to induce them to pardon what they may think is the error into which I have fallen.
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