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Updated: June 24, 2025

Special for the lower South: Miss Cleo Hearon, Mississippi and the Compromise of 1850 ; W. G. Brown, The Lower South in American History ; J. W. DuBose, The Life of William L. Yancey; and A. C. Cole, The Whig Party in the South , named in a previous note.

William Edward Dodd - Expansion and Conflict

These twentieth-century historians Garrison of Texas, Smith of Williams, Stephenson of Charleston and Yale, Van Tyne, Phillips, Fisher in his True Daniel Webster, or Ames, Hearon, and Cole in their monographs on Southern conditions many of them born in one section and educated in another, brought into broadening relations with Northern and Southern investigators, trained in the modern historical spirit and freed by the mere lapse of time from much of the passion of slavery and civil war, have written with less emotion and more knowledge than the abolitionists, secessionists, or their disciples who preceded Rhodes.

Herbert Darling Foster - Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850