. The Civil War : the national view . , all additional information is of incidents, aids,schemes, methods and devices to support that were bought and sold, were flogged, were deniedinstruction, were subjected to the will of overseers andmasters for immoral purposes—all cruelly, continuously andeffectively. Detail after detail might be related—but therelation would only intensify the truth. Yet not all thewhites at the South were slaveholders. The condition ofthe South is thus described by Mr. Rhodes: The poor whites of the South looked on the prosperityof the slaveholding lord
. The Civil War : the national view . , all additional information is of incidents, aids,schemes, methods and devices to support that were bought and sold, were flogged, were deniedinstruction, were subjected to the will of overseers andmasters for immoral purposes—all cruelly, continuously andeffectively. Detail after detail might be related—but therelation would only intensify the truth. Yet not all thewhites at the South were slaveholders. The condition ofthe South is thus described by Mr. Rhodes: The poor whites of the South looked on the prosperityof the slaveholding lord with rank envy and suUenness; histrappings contrasted painfully with their want of comforts,yet he knew so well how to play upon their contempt forthe negro, and to make it appear that his and their interestswere identical, that when election day came the whites,who were without money and without slaves, did the bid-ding of the lord of the plantation. When Southern inter-ests were in danger, it was the poor whites that voted for. ■ S .5° ^ :i ■^5 ^ tJ ^ l-H ^ ^. w ^ •i~r ^ :^ ?iK *>; o • h -> C/D K^ ^ ^ h -^ CO < ^ s ^I CJ f^ 5 1 ^ »^ Q ^ W rHE GROWTH OF THE SLAVE POWER 65 their preservation. The slaveholders, and the members ofthat society which clustered round them, took the W2LS extremely rare that a man who had ever laboredwith his hands was sent to Congress from the South, oreven chosen to one of the prominent positions in the political system of the South was an oligarchy underthe republican form. The slaveholders were in a very dis-proportionate minority in every State. Two hundred thou-sand men with pure white skins in South Carolina, saidBroderick to the senators, are now degraded and despisedby thirty thousand aristocratic slaveholders. The govern-ment of South Carolina was in favor of doing somethingto elevate their poor, but feared that they were hopelesslydoomed to ignorance, poverty, and crime. In
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