A history of the United States for schools . southerners had one greatmilitary advantage. It was not necessary for their armiesto overrun the North. If they could defend their ownfrontier long enough to make the North tired of thewar, that would be enough. Thus it became necessaryfor the North to conquer the South, destroy its armies,and occupy its territory, and that was an immense pieceof work. In planning secession, the southern leaders generallybelieved that the North would not fight. They thushoped to attain their ends without a war, but in casewar should come after all, they reckoned mor
A history of the United States for schools . southerners had one greatmilitary advantage. It was not necessary for their armiesto overrun the North. If they could defend their ownfrontier long enough to make the North tired of thewar, that would be enough. Thus it became necessaryfor the North to conquer the South, destroy its armies,and occupy its territory, and that was an immense pieceof work. In planning secession, the southern leaders generallybelieved that the North would not fight. They thushoped to attain their ends without a war, but in casewar should come after all, they reckoned more or lessconfidently upon three things, in all of which they weredisappointed: — Three dis- I. They lioped that all the slave states wouldmentrof Unite with them, but this, as we shall presentlythe South, ggg^ ^j^g j^Q^ l-]^g case. 2. They hoped for some valuable assistance fromnorthern Democrats, but got none worth • the first outbreak of hostilities, the great body ofnorthern Democrats loyally supported President Lin-. ^yy^lc^k^c^r^. From an original, unretouched negative, made in 1S64, at the time thePresident commissioned Ulysses Grant Lieutenant-General and Com-mander of all the armies of the Republic. It is said that this negative,with one of General Grant, was made in commemoration of that event. 374 THE FEDERAL UNION. Ch. XV. coins government. Some of them voted regularly withthe Republicans; others, who did not do so, were knownas War Democrats. A few, who opposed and some-times sought to embarrass the government, were called Peace Democrats and reviled as Copperheads ; but there were not enough of them to do much They hoped for substantial aid from France andEngland, especially the latter. The great English man-ufactories depended upon the supply of cotton from theSouth. If war should come, the Federal navy would tryto blockade the southern coasts ; if it should succeed, itwould create a dearth of cotton in England; so it wassupposed that
Size: 1299px × 1923px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherbostonhoughtonmiff
