Three Kinds of Troublesome Northerners
Fearing for his country's existence, Ingersoll chastises northern warmongers, their thoughtless voters, and reckless activists.
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Fearing for his country's existence, Ingersoll chastises northern warmongers, their thoughtless voters, and reckless activists.
"Copperhead" Democrat Charles Jared Ingersoll argues that both warring sections should embrace a large measure of compromise and conciliation.
Ingersoll chastises fanatics on either side of the Mason-Dixon: the fanatical, imperial Northerner and the paranoid, prideful Southerner.
Ingersoll defends the traditional existence of secession throughout American history, but ultimately condemns it as inadvisable and rash.
Ingersoll tries to revive the Second Party System's spirit of compromise--one marked by wilful ignorance of slavery, its horrors, and its legacy.