Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-317) and index.
Contents
To make his mind the mind of other men : Nathaniel Beverley Tucker -- We shall fire the Southern heart : William Lowndes Yancey --Honorable and useful ambition : John Anthony Quitman -- How best to control and use man : Robert Barnwell Rhett -- Palmetto recklessness and daring : Laurence M. Keitt and Louis T. Wigfall -- Ploughshares come before philosophy : James D. B. De Bow -- The great one idea of my life / Edmund Ruffin -- Abstractions : William Porcher Miles -- Conclusion : Conservative liberty has been vindicated.