Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832–1861 (Knoxville, TN, 1997), pp. 241, 244–50. 50. Basler Collected Works IV, 437; John Niven, The Coming of the Civil War, 1837–1861 (Arlington Heights, IL, 1990), p. Paul D. Escott, Many Excellent People Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850–1900 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1985), p. 35. 52. Basler, Collected Works IV, pp. 433, This point has also been made by Richard H. Sewell, A House Divided Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848–1865 (Baltimore, MD, 1988), p. 80. See also Potter, Impending Crisis, p. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. George M. Frederickson, White Supremacy A Comparative Study in American and South African History (Oxford, 1981), pp. Richard J. Carwardine, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (New Haven, CT, has brought out the significance of religious issues to antebellum politics. 56. Lynda L. Crist, ed, The Papers of Jefferson Davis IV, 1849–1852 (Baton Rouge, LA, 1983), p. Southern Secession • 63
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