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The Quest for Power Continues: LEADERSHIP and LEGITIMACY Just as versions of the truth about the motives of key players in the revolutionary era seem to contradict one another, so too do perspectives on the Civil War. The war between the states, the war of northern aggression, the War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance, and the lost cause were (and continue to be) common references to the almost five years of domestic blood-shedding in the United States during the 1860s. If perception is reality, what then is the truth about the Brothers' War? How do decisions get made and who gets to make them?
That the one thing which is "wholly and
eternally wrong" is the effort of so-called statesmen to inject
one-sided and jaundiced sentiments into the youth of the country in
either section. Such sentiments are neither consistent with the truth of
history, nor conducive to the future welfare and unity of the Republic.
The assumption on either side of all the righteousness and all the truth
would produce a belittling arrogance, and an offensive intolerance of
the opposing section; or, if either section could be persuaded that it
was "wholly and eternally wrong," it would inevitably destroy the
self-respect and manhood of its people. |
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