On the Golden Circle podcast today we take a look at the political struggle over foreign policy and war preparations within the newly-established Confederate States Government in the winter of 1861.Topics include: Southern nationalists vs Southern conservatives; Excerpt from William C Davis’ book Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater; Rhett’s vision of a free South; Conservatives prevail in the Confederate government.
‘My uncompromising Southernism and anti-Tariffism, I suppose, renders me unfit for the councils of the Provisional [CSA] Government.’
Sunday 17 February 2013
Rhett vs Davis on Confederate foreign policy
By The League of the South
On the Golden Circle podcast today we take a look at the political struggle over foreign policy and war preparations within the newly-established Confederate States Government in the winter of 1861.Topics include: Southern nationalists vs Southern conservatives; Excerpt from William C Davis’ book Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater; Rhett’s vision of a free South; Conservatives prevail in the Confederate government.
‘My uncompromising Southernism and anti-Tariffism, I suppose, renders me unfit for the councils of the Provisional [CSA] Government.’
On the Golden Circle podcast today we take a look at the political struggle over foreign policy and war preparations within the newly-established Confederate States Government in the winter of 1861.Topics include: Southern nationalists vs Southern conservatives; Excerpt from William C Davis’ book Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater; Rhett’s vision of a free South; Conservatives prevail in the Confederate government.
‘My uncompromising Southernism and anti-Tariffism, I suppose, renders me unfit for the councils of the Provisional [CSA] Government.’
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