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Bugdozer @timeforma.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Who said it: JD Vance or some secessionist in 1860?

Our people partake of the true American character, and are mainly the descendants of those who fought the battles of the Revolution, and who understand and appreciate the nature and inestimable value of the liberty which it brought. Adhering to the simple truths of the Gospel and the faith of their fathers, they have not run hither and thither in search of all the absurd and degrading isms which have sprung up in the rank soil of infidelity. They are not Mormons or Spiritualists, they are not Owenites, Fourierites, Agrarians, Socialists, Free-lovers or Millerites. They are not for breaking down all the forms of society and of religion and re-constructing them; but prefer law, order and existing institutions to the chaos which radicalism involves.

Bugdozer @timeforma.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Also makes the familiar move of channeling people’s unease/anger at economic/capitalist changes into unease/anger at social change as well.

The non-slaveholders, as a class, are not reduced by the necessity of our condition, as is the case in the free States, to find employment in crowded cities and come into competition in close and sickly workshops and factories, with remorseless and untiring machinery. They have but to compare their condition in this particular with the mining and manufacturing operatives of the North and Europe, to be thankful that God has reserved them for a better fate. Tender women, aged men, delicate children, toil and labor there from early dawn until after candle light, from one year to another, for a miserable pittance, scarcely above the starvation point and without hope of amelioration.

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Bugdozer @timeforma.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Both from “J.D.B. DeBow: The Non-Slaveholders of the South” in this great volume: www.loa.org/books/343-th...

The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It - Library of America

“As the testimony accumulates, a profound portrait of a nation in crisis emerges, conjuring the epic quality of the conflict and its consequences as almost nothing before it. It is both mesmerizing an...

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