News That Stays News

Reading the Civil War, as it happened November 7, 2010

A new project for Walter Russell Mead and The American Interest: over the next few years, the magazine will publish The Long Recall, a daily digest of the news available to American readers, a hundred and fifty years ago. So today you can read about the reaction to Lincoln’s victory in the election of 1860 in the New York Times, the Weekly Raleigh Register, and the Montgomery Weekly Mail, which declares that

The South throws away, every year, more dollars than makes the legitimate income of the North. In fact, the North has fattened on the South; sucks its blood, year by year; and if now it feels like driving the South, who should complain? Hungry bellies will soon drive the lover of the almighty nigger to his knees; he will whine and beg, like any hound, when it is too late. If he goes unfed, he will find out, after a while, that his own folly lost him his dinner.

Credit: my girlfriend.