Far beyond this, it was in their judgment to blight their land with ignorance and indolence, to be followed by crime and anarchy.

Their point of view was so radically different from that held by a large number of Northern people that it left no common ground for action,--scarcely, indeed, an opportunity for reasoning together.

In the South they saw and felt their danger, and they determined at all hazards to defend themselves against policies which involved the total destruction of their social and industrial fabric.

They were not mere malcontents.
They were not pretenders.

They did not aim at small things.