Lucius QCLamar: his life, times, and speeches, 1825-1893 . contestshad developed the highest ideals of ijolitical rights which the worldhad ever known. These ideals, denied to us in practical application bythe British Crown, had produced our glorious revolution of 70. Theyhad been embodied in the Federal Constitution, and our national lifefor ninety years had infused them in their largest and highest develop-ment into the lifeblood of every thoughtful American. In the marchof American political progress Southern statesmen had l)cen always inthe van. It was a peculiar phase of Southern intellec
Lucius QCLamar: his life, times, and speeches, 1825-1893 . contestshad developed the highest ideals of ijolitical rights which the worldhad ever known. These ideals, denied to us in practical application bythe British Crown, had produced our glorious revolution of 70. Theyhad been embodied in the Federal Constitution, and our national lifefor ninety years had infused them in their largest and highest develop-ment into the lifeblood of every thoughtful American. In the marchof American political progress Southern statesmen had l)cen always inthe van. It was a peculiar phase of Southern intellectual life that allambitions and all higher culture led to statesmanship and to the polit-ical career. The very women were skilled in statecraft. And thus it. GEN. EDWARD C. WALTHALL. HIS LIFE, TIMES, AND SPEECHES. 119 was that when the South fell, and its theories of the political structureof the government and of the rights of the citizens of the several Stateswere denied without appeal and by the armed hand, the Southern peo-ple felt that they had been stricken in the very citadel of their intel-lectual and political lives—as if the flower of their own labors, and ofthose of their fathers for centuries, had been trampled into the dust. The country, moreover, was utterly impoverished. Not only were theslaves freed, but also laud values were enormously reduced. The rail-roads had been torn up to a great extent, and were without rolling of the cities were in ruins, and a large proportion of the dwellingsboth in town and country were destroyed; no cotton ciops had beenmade for three years; all movables had been consumed by the war—farming utensils, wagons, and live stock. At one sweep the elevenSouthern States, with a free pop
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