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To split the Union, he would play into the hands of the slave-barons. He would aim to combine with their movement the negative Southern movement and use the resulting coalition to crown with success his third attempt. Issuing from his seclusion, he became at once the overshadowing figure in South Carolina. Around him all the elements of revolution crystallized.
Indifferent as they were to slavery, they were willing to go along with the "slave-barons" in the attempt to consolidate the South in a movement of denial a denial of the right of the North, either through Abolitionism or through tariff, to dominate the South. If only Lincoln with his subtle mind could have come into touch with the negative side of the Southern agitation!
We plunge even now into great groves of oak and towering pine, with an undergrowth of myrtle and shrubbery. This was the "home-house" of the Thompsons, slave-barons who drove their coach and four in the merry past. All is silence now, and ashes, and tangled weeds.
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