. General Joseph Wheeler and the Army of Tennessee [electronic resource] . gro and to the white population of all classes, Icontend that the institution was self-extinguishing by processof influences inherent, and that the sword was an intruder,the agent of empirical statecraft and absurd sentimentality. Let us alone! was the sole cry of the south. answered: This republic cannot exist half free,half slave: a house divided against itself must fall. Thisrepublic was not built upon Mr. Lincolns post-structuraltheory. Mr. Lincoln was not abreast with the movingforces which were potent f
. General Joseph Wheeler and the Army of Tennessee [electronic resource] . gro and to the white population of all classes, Icontend that the institution was self-extinguishing by processof influences inherent, and that the sword was an intruder,the agent of empirical statecraft and absurd sentimentality. Let us alone! was the sole cry of the south. answered: This republic cannot exist half free,half slave: a house divided against itself must fall. Thisrepublic was not built upon Mr. Lincolns post-structuraltheory. Mr. Lincoln was not abreast with the movingforces which were potent for the correction of abnormalrelations, if any, between the ever-advancing humanity ofthe southern negro slave and the ever-advancing whitemans civilization of the age. He overlooked the nativecapacity of the negro to incorporate himself in that civiliza-tion. Daniel Webster, late in the 1840s visited Charleston,S. C, for the first time. He came, doubtless, to seewith his own eyes something of negro slavery. There hewas received with distinguished cordiality- He saw the. >- H 2Pow o?J « t ) H P w <: S H w m ^ H ^ h — O X w ,rr. M o ^ iH ??, W w is fe THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE 25 adjacent plantations and the slaves in the daily routine oftheir lives. He went thence far into the interior, to Colum-bia. Plantations of the vicinity were thrown open to hisinspection. He left his carriage, walked among the laborersin the fields, talked freely with them and entered theircabins, observing the nurseries and the general habit ofplantation life among them. At a formal dinner given inhis honor that night, he rose to a post-prandial speech, andamong other things said: I do not see that the presentcondition of the negro here can be altered for the better.^^ Lincoln, Webster, nor Calhoun considered the accom-plished interdependence of the two occupant races of thesouth in its ultimate. The lower race had been continuouslyprogressive. It was progress so effective that it wasgradually and
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