Beck needs to go back and take American History all over again.
Hey Richard, maybe Glenn was taught too much American Exceptionalims in school!
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Quotations: The Series
August 26, 2008The process of reading history books for me has always included a pencil in which to underline quotes and information that interests me. Most of the time these quotes and statements tend to run opposite of the neo-confederate version of history. So, this series will be those quotes as sort of a review of the book and/or document that I am currently reading or have read in the past.
The first book I will be highligthing will be “Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession and the Coming of the Civil War” by Maury Klein 
So, here goes my first favorite quotes from the book.
“This clash of stereotypes became potent ammunition in the sectional conflict. ‘Free society!’ wrote an editor in Muscogee, Georgia, ‘[W]e sicken at the name. When it is but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small farmers, and moon-struck theorists? All northern, and especially the New England states, are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman’s body servant.” (p. 36)
With quotes like this, it make you wonder why the south claimed Lincoln was a tyrant. To find the tyrant maybe they should look a bit closer to home.
Klein also shows how the North returned fire…
” ‘We know that Southern aristocracy is not synonymous with comfort, thrift, cleanliness, and usefulness, honesty, decency, or common humanity.’ wrote a New York editor; ‘ we have learned to recognize it by the opposite of these traits.’ Edward Bates, a Missouri Republican, shook his head at the impractical ways of southerners. ‘They are an anomalous people,’ he observed, ‘the only agricultural people that I know of, who cannot live upon the products of their own labor, and have no means of their own to take those products to market.” (p. 36)
