...whole fabric of southern society must be changed and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. How can republican institutions, free schools, free...exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs? (quoted in Stampp 1965, ii6) Lost historical moments foreclose some options, select tor others, and...

...20,000 acre manors with lordly palaces and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited by 'low white trash.' If the South is ever to be made a safe republic, let...her lands be cultivated by the toil of the owners of the free labor of intelligent citizens. This must be done even if it drives her nobility into exile....

...help break down the Southern oligarchy. As Stevens said on the floor of the House of Representatives: The whole fabric of southern society must be changed,...her lands be cultivated by the toil of the owners of the free labor of intelligent citizens.18 At least part of the bill was justified on the basis of...

...fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. . . . If the South is ever to be made a safe Republic, let...toil of the owners, or the free labor of intelligent citizens. This must be done even though it drive her nobility into exile. If they go, all the better....

...can Republican institutions, free schools, free churches, free social intercourse," asked Stevens, "exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs?"..."If the South is ever to be made a safe republic," the congressman decreed, "let her lands be cultivated by the toil of owners."6 Other radical Republicans,...

...fabric of Southern society must be changed, and it can never be done if this opportunity is lost.... How can republican institutions, free schools, free...exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs; of the owners of 20,000 acre manors with lordly palaces and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited...