# Historical sketches of the south

Author: Roche, Emma Langdon, 1878-1945

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77013

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Historical+sketches+of+the+south+Roche&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

To fully understand the opposition of thought wherein our “irrepressible conflict” had its inception and lay so long in embryo, to burst forth at last in the awful and bloody travail of a nation divided and at arms, some knowledge of the history and psychology of the peoples who settled the American colonies is necessary; for a nation’s cataclysms are not spontaneously generated, but are the result of forces which though for generations are silent and hidden are gathering strength under the evils of superstition, oppression, or fanaticism, and only need such an explosive as the tongue of a Danton, Robespierre, Garrison, Beecher, or Stowe to hurl the people into death and desolation.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historical-sketches-of-the-south-77013/chapters/8/index.md)