Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion

It may be observed that no extensive and formidable rebel lion of an intelligent people against an established Government has ever arisen without a long train of previous and subsidiary causes. A principal object of the author, therefore, is to pre sent to the reader a historical sketch of the antecedents ending in the late rebellion. In performing this task, the eye naturally fixes itself, as the starting point, upon the existence of domestic slavery in the South, recognized and protected as this was by the Constitution of the United States. We shall not inquire whether its patriotic and enlightened framers acted with wise foresight in yielding their sanction to an institution which is in itself a great social evil, though they considered this was neces sary to avoid the still greater calamity of dissolving the Con vention without the formation of our F ederal Union.

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