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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | January 9, 1929 issue

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W.E. Woodward's "Meet General Grant" tells a thrilling story and neglects none of the dramatic values. Accordingly he is torn by the unconcious sway of early memories and the pull of Marxian doctrine. He would have us believe that ancient fallacy that the Civil War was not fought around the issue of slavery. All Southerners like to promulgate this theory because even now secession is a debatable point in pure constitutional law. Even though it may be a mistaken notion of the intention of the founders, secession is at least a respectable and honest contention. There is no man alive who cares to defend slavery. If the war raged chiefly around the slavery issue then it is hard to trump up any glory for the Southern cause.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government; CONSTITUTIONAL law; GOVERNMENT, Resistance to; CIVIL war; WAR; UNITED States
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