The State That Forgot: South Carolina's Surrender to Democracy, Reconstruction

Description: The State That Forgot: South Carolina's Surrender to Democracy. By William Watts Ball. Published 1932, First Edition. Hard Cover. 307 pages. Measures 9" x 6". Rare book! Long out-of-print and hard to find. Excerpt from the First Chapter: “I grew up among the “Bourbon Democrats,” steeped in their opinions and prejudices, which I honor and cherish, in mature years rejecting nothing. Of these men I shall write, of all kinds and conditions of them, briefly of their origins, in chapters about the settlement of the Colony, and I shall write something of the plantation life and of the political conditions before and after the Confederate War as they were reflected through experiences of my own kindred and friends, saying here that the anecdotes, with occasional concealment of real names, are true. My political thesis is that the Federal Government, by means of armed forces, placed South Carolina on the operating table in 1867, that in 1868 the Carpetbaggers made an incision in the body, and, by the constitution they adopted, injected into it the deadly and foreign poison of democracy which, after causing the loathsome ulcers of Reconstruction, subtly spread through the blood-stream of the white people and killed for ever in it the inherited corpuscles of political and social health. I begin the book with descriptions of the villages and counties, using Laurens as representative of those of the “Upcountry.””

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