. Georgia and state rights. A study of the political history of Georgia from the Revolution to the Civil War, with particular regard to federal relations . to the plantation system. It is essential to remember that, although the fact was notfrequently stated at the time, the Troup and Clarke partieswere based upon a fundamental difference in the economicconditions of the people. As we follow the developments inthe succeeding decades, we shall see that these parties changedtheir names more than once, and attempted to change theircharacter, but that the division of parties according to economica
. Georgia and state rights. A study of the political history of Georgia from the Revolution to the Civil War, with particular regard to federal relations . to the plantation system. It is essential to remember that, although the fact was notfrequently stated at the time, the Troup and Clarke partieswere based upon a fundamental difference in the economicconditions of the people. As we follow the developments inthe succeeding decades, we shall see that these parties changedtheir names more than once, and attempted to change theircharacter, but that the division of parties according to economicand social conditions and dependent upon economic geographywas more powerful for continuity than were the influenceof leaders or the dictates of policy when they tended towarda disorganization of the alignment. Industrial and social conditions were of course nothing morethan the general basis for the division of the people intopolitical factions. There was nothing like an invariable cus-tom that a man who had slaves should vote for Troup and aman who had no slaves should vote for Clarke, nor that the Historical Report, 1901 - Phillips. Plate V EARLY. BAKER DECATUR JULIUS BIEN &GOLITH NY. MAP OF GEORGIA IN 182 5 showing local preponderance of whites and negroes as i>iven m a state census taken in the Fall 01 1824 XECROES MAJORITY WHITES MAJORITY 3] SOU) 60 percent of the total population | | 50 to 60 percent of the total populationm 60 . 75 .... „ , \^J GO ..75 . . „ . ] over 75 . | over75 ,. „ . , above 90 - » •• » GEORGIA AND STATE RIGHTS. 1()7 possession of live slaves or more should support one candidatewhile the owner of four negroes or less should rally to theother. The line of separation between the classes was itselfvague and varying. The great bulk of the slaveholders wereslaveholders in a very small way. It was the ambition ofmost of these to increase the number of their servants andtheir acres, and it was the hope of most of the poor whitesthat at some d
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