Excerpt from The Philosophy of the American Rebellion I shall not dispute with Mr. Stephens his grand truth that Our new. Government is based upon exactly the opposite idea to that which forms the basis of the United States Gov ernment. I must say, however, I do not think the new sh'air any improvement; and the argu ments advanced in support of it are not such as were advanced by our forefathers. Perhaps, as he says. They were in error - they were funda mentally wrong, but I have still so greats veneration for the names of Washington, Jed'er son, Franklin, and their glorious compeers, that my mind is unwilling to substitute in their pla ees, Yancey and Keitt and Stephens and Davis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.