Defending the Heritage THEYVE DONE A GREAT JOB OF COVERING UP THE TRUTH FOR 150 YEARS… “Governor Horatio Seymour of New York had been among the foremost to avow when the first states seceded, that the South had suffered wrongs that justified her secession and to protest that states should not be pinned to the Union with bayonets.” Dr. Benjamin Andrews History of the US Vol. II p. 65 Mayor Wood of NY City proposed before the war began that New York should announce herself an Independent Republic. ~Robert~ These sentiments represented the dominant feelings of Northerners; Lincoln and the radicals had to manufacture a crisis (Sumter) to turn public opinion against the South.
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