Fulbright, J. William

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-11- of the slave system and the politics of a ravaged society. Left with its own problems the South solved them, or deferred their solution, in its own way, while the uninvaded and relatively uninjured sections of the nation surged into the era of America's industrial revolution, no longer concerned with the great moral crusade of the '60s. Dr. C. Vann Woodward, a noted historian and a native of my State, has captured the spirit of this betrayal in an incisive and penetrating book, THE BURDEN OF SOUTHERN HISTORY. In a chapter aptly titled "Equality: The Deferred Commitment", Dr. Woodward writes: "The Union fought the Civil War on borrowed moral capital. With their noble belief in their purpose and their extravagant faith in the future, the radicals ran up a staggering war debt, a moral debt that was

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J. William Fulbright Speaks

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