Last updated 09/07/24: Online ordering is currently unavailable due to technical issues. We apologise for any delays responding to customers while we resolve this. For further updates please visit our website: https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/technical-incident
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
The last generation of the ante-bellum South devoted its best thought to the integration of a plantation culture whose economic base was chattel slavery. Every aspect of its civilization had to make its peace with slavery or be rejected. Long before the guns fired on Fort Sumpter, southern civilization had wrought out an ideology that was as dogmatic as Marxism has ever dared to be. Those who rejected this ideology were promptly silenced or ushered into a cooler climate. The liberalism of an older revolutionary South had long ago been smothered in the atmosphere of cultural fascism.
1 Vander Velde, L. G., The Presbyterian Churches and the Federal Union (Cambridge, 1932), 30.Google Scholar
2 Palmer, B. M., “Life, Character, and Genius of the Late Reverend James H. Thornwell,” Southern Presbyterian Review, XV (1862–1863), 265.Google Scholar
3 Thornwell, , Works, IV, 396.Google Scholar
4 Ibid., 382; 394–395.
5 Ibid., 449.
6 Works, IV, 383.
7 Ibid., 382.
8 Ibid., 383.
9 Thornwell, , “Slavery and the Religious Instruction of the Colored Population,” Southern Presbyterian Review, IV (1850), 128.Google Scholar
10 Thornwell, , “Slavery and the Religious Instruction of the Colored Population,” Southern Presbyterian Review, IV (1850), 126–127.Google Scholar
11 Works, IV, 501.
12 Ibid., 500.
13 Works, IV, 500.
14 Ibid., 384.
15 Works, IV, 386–387.
16 Ibid., 387.
17 Works, IV, 392.
18 Ibid., 392.
19 Ibid., 405–406.
20 Ibid., 398–436.
21 Works, IV, 403.
22 Ibid., 433.
23 Ibid., 433.
24 Ibid., 433.
25 Works, IV, 434.
26 Thornwell, , “The State of the Country,” Southern Presbyterian Review, XIII (1860–1861), 874.Google Scholar
27 Works IV, 432.
28 Works, IV, 391.
29 Works IV, 539–541.
30 Ibid., 541.
31 Thornwell, , “National Sins—A Fast Day Sermon,” Southern Presbyterian Review, XIII (1860–1861), 679.Google Scholar
32 Ibid., 649–688.
