. The southerners, a story of the Civil War . ct of secession inCharleston, South Carolina, markedthe beginning of trouble for all thepersons concerned in this story. Alas!it marked the beginning of trouble fora great many persons concerned in agreat many stories which shall neverbe told. Peyton had been entirely honest inhis conversation with his father. Hehad not made up his mind, and in theintervening days he tried hard to doso. Making up his mind finally anddefinitely upon any subject exceptMary Annan had been rather a diffi-cult task to him heretofore. Like many spiritual,sensitive, highl
. The southerners, a story of the Civil War . ct of secession inCharleston, South Carolina, markedthe beginning of trouble for all thepersons concerned in this story. Alas!it marked the beginning of trouble fora great many persons concerned in agreat many stories which shall neverbe told. Peyton had been entirely honest inhis conversation with his father. Hehad not made up his mind, and in theintervening days he tried hard to doso. Making up his mind finally anddefinitely upon any subject exceptMary Annan had been rather a diffi-cult task to him heretofore. Like many spiritual,sensitive, highly organized natures he lacked initiativeand determination, and much preferred to have thingshappen as they would rather than constrain this was a question which could not be put by. There were long discussions between father and sonconcerning the rights and wrongs of the Peyton was the extremest type of Southernman. He believed that slavery was a divine institu-tion warranted by Biblical teaching, and sanctioned 99. THE SOUTHERNERS alike by morality and expediency. Looking upon thenegroes as an inferior race, he would hear of no con-demnation of the system by which they were his own case his slaves were happy and ownership and rule were mild and benevolent, andhis people adored him. This was the case with mostof the slave-owners he knew, and he wilfully, or per-haps unconsciously, blinded himself to any other feat-ure of it. Aside from any consideration of the slave question,his State was easily paramount to the United Statesor any other of them in his affections, and he was un-able to understand how there could be any hesitationon the part of his son as to his duty. He plied himwith every argument at his command, while, by themost violent efforts, he barely succeeded in preservingsome measure of his self-control in the daily discus-sions. At first Boyd thought to break away from these re-curring periods of heated debate and sola
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