FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF GENESEE COLLEGE, NEW YORK; MEMBER OF YORK GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL SOCIETY; MEMBER A WORD BEFOREHAND. IN 1860 the South was solid for treason and rebellion; and its hope to succeed in the destruction of this Republic was based on the aid and comfort promised it by its political supporters in the Northern States. In 1880 the same South is solid to ruin the same country, by getting political possession of it; and its sole dependence is the second time on the same class of Northern allies, who have again bargained to give their Southern friends the triumph at the voting-precincts, which was lost to them on the field of blood. Only forty-seven electoral votes are wanted of the North to deliver the nation into rebel hands. Such is the present crisis. To this result the nation has been coming for almost a hundred years. The following pages sketch the history, and expose iii |