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title	:	The Fire-eaters
author	:	Walther, Eric H.
publisher	:	Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807117315
print isbn13	:	9780807117316
ebook isbn13	:	9780585320434
language	:	English
subject	Secession--Southern States.
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	E459.W25 1992eb
ddc	:	973.7/13
subject	:	Secession--Southern States.

Page iii The Fire-Eaters Eric H. Walther

Page iv Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of the book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. Copyright 1992 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 5 4 3 2 1 Designer: Amanda McDonald Key Typeface: Baskerville Typesetter. G & S Typesetters, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walther, Eric H., 1960 The fire-eaters / Eric H. Walther. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8071-1731-5 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-8071-1775-7 (pbk.: alk. paper). I. Secession. I. Title. E459.W25 1992 973.7'13dc20 91-38321 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

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Page vii And this is the fourth of Julya day in which we have talked so much in the past of liberty & independence, George Washington Etc, with all Yankee land [now] pressing upon our vitals & exhausting that substance which we so much begrudged old George 3 & Lord North. Independence indeed! In what has it at last culminated? Have ancient or modern times furnished a despotism more absolute & irresponsible than the one which left its head at the capital of the old republic & tramples underfoot with impunity every vestige of liberty. And yet the Creatures who denounce monarchy & claim the cognomen of Republicans par excellance, fling up their hats & shout hozzanah's to the despot who has his feet upon their neck. I am in despair! The course of republicanism seems to be the same in all ages & what hope have even we who are now staking our lives & fortunes in protection of its stronghold of a better fate as history advances? The evil day may be averted but how long. If this law is to be perpetual better at once acknowledge our error, repeal the declaration of Independence & return to the household of the Tudors, the Stuarts & the Guelphes! At all events any of these or even the house of Hapsburg rather than the vulgar & besotted & drunken rule of the Lincolns, Greelys & Sewards! Whilst there is a Southern sword to be drawn this last fate can never be ours! James D. B. De Bow to Charles Gayarr, July 4, 1861

Page ix Contents Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii Introduction 1 One To Make His Mind the Mind of other Men Nathaniel Beverley Tucker 8 Two We Shall Fire the Southern Heart William Lowndes Yancey 48 Three Honorable and Useful Ambition John Anthony Quitman 83 Four How Best to Controul and Use Man Robert Barnwell Rhett 121 Five Palmetto Recklessness and Daring Laurence M. Keitt and Louis T. Wigfall 160 Six Ploughshares Come before Philosophy James D. B. De Bow 195 Seven The Great One Idea of My Life Edmund Ruffin 228 Eight Abstractions William Porcher Miles 270

Page x Conclusion Conservative Liberty Has Been Vindicated 297 Bibliographical Essay 303 Index 319

Page xi Illustrations following page 111 Nathaniel Beverley Tucker William Lowndes Yancey John Anthony Quitman Robert Barnwell Rhett Laurence M. Keitt Louis T. Wigfall James D. B. De Bow Edmund Ruffin

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