The Ultimate Civil War Series - Episode 1 - "Sins of the Fathers" - LionHeart Original

e [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] h [Music] fellow citizens of the United States in compliance with a custom as old as the government itself I appear before you to address you briefly and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the president before he enters on the execution of his office apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern state that by the excession of a republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered there has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension indeed the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection it is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists I believe I have no lawful right to do so and I have no inclination to do so those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them in your hands my dissatisfied fellow countrymen and not in mine is the momentous issue of Civil War the government will not assail you you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors you have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve protect and defend it how did it come to this that a duly elected American president should plead with his fellow citizens to not become the aggressors when did the American experiment go so far arai that half the nation sat poised on the edge of violent Insurrection how far back can we trace this Schism in our own self-identity in which we were a beacon of Liberty to the world yet drove millions of slaves to toil beneath the Lash slavery in America was older than the nation itself born among the colonies of European nations during the leadup to the American Revolution Jefferson and others criticized Britain for creating slavery in the colonies the new constitution denigrated slaves with its three fifths Clause by counting each as less than a whole person but it also set an end date for the international trade in slaves and in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 the Congress had sectioned off an enormous territory and declared that this portion of land should be forever [Music] free things changed with the invention of the cotton Jin Eli Whitney's invention didn't take all of the intense labor out of cotton it removed the timeconsuming bottleneck of combing cotton which meant that now cotton plantations could process enormous amounts of cotton far more quickly than ever before which meant that those plantations needed to get more cotton out of the fields faster and to do that cheaply they needed slaves the growth in slavery driven by cotton chained slavery from a British created institution that Thomas Jefferson could claim had been forced upon the colge Colones into a truly American engine of Industry by 1850 about 75% of American slaves were in the service of King Cotton Ste away steal away to [Music] Jesus Ste paralleling the rise of cotton was the growth of the abolitionists initially the Abolitionist Movement was limited to Quakers who persuaded members to give up their slaves following the American Revolution the movement grew with more and more people calling for the end of slavery in the Years leading up to the Civil War abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas insisted that over time former slaves and their progeny would become assimilated into American society against the flood of abolitionists there stood a wall of Southern Planters and their representatives in the Congress and the Senate South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond who crowned cotton King and before him South Carolina Senator John C Calhoun were among the most most prominent [Music] voices in the 1830s and 40s Calhoun led the pro-slavery faction in the Senate he directly opposed abolitionism and was a major advocate of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Calhoun is perhaps most famous or inFAMOUS for his 1837 speech on the senate floor in which he described slavery not as a necessary evil but as a positive good abolition and the union cannot coexist as the friend of the Union I openly Proclaim it and the sooner it is known the better we of the South will not cannot surrender our institutions to maintain the existing relations between the two races inhabiting that section of the Union is indispensable to the peace and happiness of both the relation now existing in the slave Holden States between the two races is instead of an evil a good a positive good in 1850 Calhoun was a major supporter of the Fugitive Slave Act this new law would serve to Galvanize opponents of slavery driving the wedge between North and South even deeper the original Fugitive Slave Act in 1793 had made it illegal to give Aid to runaway slaves however that law left responsibility for enforcement to the states under the new law however all fugitive slave cases would be handled by federal officials not surprisingly It is believed that many free blacks were caught up in this act captured by agents working for southern planners and unable able to offer a word in their own defense also unsurprisingly this law outraged abolitionists such as Harriet beer [Music] Stow Stow was infuriated believing the law sought to make her complicit in an immoral system her sister-in-law Isabella Porter beer wrote to Stow if I could use a pen like you Hattie I would write something that would show the entire world what an accursed thing slavery is STO already a riter resolved to do just that the result was successful Beyond anyone's expectations written in 1851 as a serial story published in the anti-slavery newspaper the national era Uncle Tom's Cabin was collected and sold as a book in 18 1952 it sold 300,000 copies within a year and 2 million in 2 years telling the story of slaves suffering under escaping from and dying in slavery stow's book spread her own outrage into the hearts and minds of millions of [Music] readers the dividing line between North and South grew ever sharper and it was drawn on on the issue of slavery as the US gained more and more territory expanding Westward according to its Manifest Destiny disagreements became arguments arguments became fights fights became battles and eventually battles became War introduced by Democratic senator Steven Douglas of Illinois the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 changed the rules for determining whether a territory would be slave or free under the concept known as popular sovereignty the residents of each territory would get to vote to decide whether slavery would be permitted that is the white male residents would get to vote on whether peoples other than themselves could be Enslaved the ACT specifically repealed that part of the Missi compromise that outlawed slavery north of the line drawn in 1820 Stephen Douglas hoped that this would win him the support of Southerners his eye was on an eventual bid for the presidency but he did not consider the degree of opposition the bill would face in the North in particular he had no inkling of the future of one man in particular who would be energized by this act Abraham Lincoln I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again the Kansas Nebraska Act was the impetus for the first round of the Lincoln Douglas debates that launched Lincoln's National political career and carved out his views on slavery I think and she'll try to show that it is wrong wrong in its direct effect letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska and wrong in its prospective principle allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world where men can be found inclined to take it this declared indifference for the spread of slavery I cannot but hate I hate it because of the Monstrous Injustice of slavery itself I hate it because it deprives our Republican example of it its just influence in the world enables the enemies of free institutions with plausibility to taunt us as Hypocrites causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty criticizing the Declaration of Independence and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self interest despite the opposition of Lincoln and many others the Kansas Nebraska Act passed signed into law on May 30th 1854 the question of slavery in each territory would be determined by the vote of the people living there and so the stage was set for the most strident short-tempered zealous and potentially violent proponents of both slavery and abolition to Marshal their forces and run to Kansas to swell the ranks of Voters for their side in hopes of winning the state pro-slavery settlers moved in from Missouri with some showing up just long enough to vote meanwhile abolitionist societies back East were funding settlers to add their anti-slavery votes thousands of pro and anti-slavery men and families moved to Kansas planning to wage war at The Ballot Box but also armed for more physical confrontation tensions Rose and political chicanery became open violence on May 21st 1856 a group of about 800 Border Ruffians entered the town of Lawrence Kansas which was under the control of free state settlers they blocked off all roads out of town preventing Escape Under a flag inscribed southern rights they smashed the printing presses in the town's two printing offices and threw the type into the river they then Set Fire To The Free State Hotel hundreds more would be killed in the war of Bushwhackers in Kansas but in 1859 free soilers were able to elect a majority of the delegates to the territory's Constitutional Convention and in January 1961 Kansas was admitted as a free state less than a year after these incidents in Kansas the issue of Congress setting aside territories as being slave or free rose again the case was Dread Scott versus Sanford in which the court further declared that persons of African descent slave or free were not citizens of the United States Scott sued for his freedom in 1846 the case wound its way through courts over the years finally Landing in the US Supreme Court in 1856 whose members included five slaveholders chief justice Roger Tanny wrote the majority opinion declaring that Dread Scott and all persons of African descent could not be citizens of the United States even if they were recognized as CI of an individual State therefore Scott could not Sue in federal court and the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction over the case the immediate consequence of the decision was that Dread Scott and his family failed to secure their freedom in court as Lincoln said in his house divided speech in [Music] 1858 such a decision is all that slavery now lacks of being alike lawful in all the states such decision is probably coming and will soon be upon us unless the power of the present political Dynasty shall be met and overthrown in that same speech Lincoln forsaw the coming civil war A house divided against itself cannot stand I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free I do not expect the union to be dissolved I do not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided it will become all one thing or all the other either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate Extinction or its Advocates will push it Forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states old as well as new North as well as South [Music] a veteran of the fighting in Bloody Kansas would help divide the house further with his next and final militant effort against pro-slavery forces in Kansas in 1856 John Brown and his sons had led the patami massacre in which supporters of slavery were dragged from their homes and slaughtered with a broadsword in 1859 John Brown focused his attention on a new Target the government Armory and Arsenal at Harper's Ferry he planned to use those weapons to arm what he expected to be an army of fugitive slaves that would join him but he failed to convince one important escaped slave John Brown had long been a friend of Frederick Douglas Douglas had preached pacifism prior to 1850 but in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Law he believed that who would be free must himself strike the first blow Brown appealed to Douglas to join him in the raid Douglas tried to talk Brown out of the mission but failed he later said I told him finally that he was going into a still trap from which there was no escape and that I did not see it as my duty to follow him Douglas's prediction was correct John Brown's mission was a failure half his men were killed during the raid including one of Brown's Sons most of the others including John Brown himself were captured and hanged four men escaped in including another of Brown's Sons John Brown died by hanging on December 2nd 1859 this was one more event to shock the consciences of the American people and to put them into opposing camps on the rightness of Brown's cause if not his methods the raid on Harper's Ferry would be seen by many as the first shots fired in the Civil War decades later Frederick Douglas would ask an audience about the success of John Brown's raid on Harper's fery if John Brown did not end the war that ended slavery he did at least begin the war that ended slavery until this blow was struck the prospect for Freedom was dim shadowy and uncertain the irrepressible conflict was one of words votes and compromises when John Brown stretched forth his arm the sky was cleared the time for compromises was gone the armed host of Freedom stood face to face over the chasm of a broken Union and The Clash of arms was at hand the South staked all upon getting possession of the federal government and failing to do that Drew the sword of rebellion and thus made her own and not Browns the lost cause of the century in the election of 1860 the South made the that bid for control of the federal government all of the conflicts of the past decades came to a head in the presidential election in the turmoil of the 1850s the major American political parties were falling apart the wigs were essentially gone Northern anti-slavery wigs joined the new Republican party which was entirely sectional the Republican party's anti-slavery stance which varied in degree among its members meant that it had no place in the South most southern wigs joined the new Constitutional Union party meanwhile the Democrats were torn across the Mason Dixon line into Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats Abraham Lincoln a former US representative was nominated by the Republicans John Bell former senator from Tennessee received the Constitutional party nomination the southern Democrats nominated the sitting Vice President John Breckenridge and the northern Democrats nominated Lincoln's old adversary Senator Steven Douglas of Illinois Lincoln was in the eyes of many Republicans a moderate on the slavery question he was strongly opposed to its expansion into the territories which he believed was in direct contrast with the intentions of the founding fathers but he did not seek to eliminate slavery in those states where it was already permitted Lincoln and Douglas battled in the north while Bell and Breen Ridge faced off in the South though Douglas unlike Lincoln had some support in the South as well Lincoln as we all know today was the final winner of the election but it was no sure thing he was not even on the ballot in most of the slave states of almost a thousand counties in the 15 slaveholding states in 1860 Lincoln won only two nationally he had only 40% of the popular vote but that was considerably higher than his nearest opponent Steven Douglas with 29% Lincoln won 180 out of 303 Electoral College votes making him the clear winner to do that he had to sweep the free states of the north the southern states were outraged not a single ballot had been cast for Abraham Lincoln in 10 Southern States because he was not on the ballot and yet now he was President South Carolina moved first seceding from the union on December 20th 1860 they cited Lincoln's election at as an overt Act of aggression by the north that is they did not claim to be seceding because they had been attacked or because the federal government was attempting to devest them of their slaves but because the result of the presidential election was itself an offense within a few months Florida Mississippi Alabama Georgia Louisiana and Texas had joined them these states adopted a new constitution in February 1861 and declared themselves the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was appointed president by the delegates and Alexander Stevens of Georgia was appointed vice president Alexander Stevens gave a speech the following month in which he outlined how this new constitution was superior to the original on the subject of slavery the new constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions African slavery as it exists Among Us the proper status of the Negro in our form of civilization this was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present Revolution Jefferson in this forecast had anticipated ated this as a rock upon which the old Union would split he was right what was conjecture with him is now a realized fact the prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading Statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature that it was wrong in principle socially morally and politically it was an evil they know know now well how to deal with but the general opinion of the men of that day was that somehow or other and the Order of Providence the institution would be inven [Music] [Music] upon exactly the opposite idea its foundations are laid its cornerstones rests upon the great truth that the Negro was not equal to the white man that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition this our new government is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical philosophical and moral truth if any one had any lingering doubts about the role of slavery in causing the southern states to secede from the Union in 1861 vice president Alexander Steven's speech should have abolished those doubts as he said the Cornerstone of the new government was the assertion that slavery was the natural condition of African-Americans most still hoped that this secession crisis would not lead to war a peace Conference was held in Washington in February 1861 but the conference was unable to resolve the central issue of slavery which had brought the crisis to a head the conference failed to bring peace but the eight states which had not yet seceded still remained with the Union the federal government did not immediately react to the secessions Lincoln had not even taken office before the seceded States had written their new Constitution and begun capturing Federal forts within their boundaries but soon came an action they could not ignore 6 days after South Carolina seceded and under the cover of Darkness Major Robert Anderson had moved his regiment out of the indefensible federal Fort mtry and into Fort Sumpter both forts were in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor but Sumpter still under construction and previously unoccupied controlled the entrance to the harbor Anderson was in a better position but he and his 80 odd men needed supplies arms and reinforcements President Buchanan ordered a civilian Merchant vessel the Star of the West to be used to make the delivery hoping it would be seen as less antagonistic to the Confederates but as the Star of the West approached Sumpter on January 9th 1861 Cadets from The Citadel who were Manning the artillery battery on moris island opened fire batteries from the now conf at held Fort mtry joined in and the ship was forced to [Music] withdraw when Lincoln took office in the first week of March he was dismayed to learn that Anderson now becoming a hero in the union only had enough rations to last 6 weeks by now Confederate Brigadier General PGT board had built up a powerful force within the other Harbor forts to ch Anderson negotiations over the next month failed to improve the situation Lincoln insisted that the southern states had no right under the Constitution to secede and that in fact they simply could not leave the union therefore any discussion of turning over or selling us forts to what he considered a false government could not take place the situation at Sumpter was becoming dire rations were running out Lincoln's position was delicate on the one hand he did not want to take aggressive actions that might push Virginia and the other states of the upper South out of the union and into the Confederacy he still hoped that this crisis of secession would not turn into a war on the other hand if he surrendered Sumter in the face of military threat from the newborn Confederacy that might give the insurrectionist government too much legitimacy so that he would never be able to bring its states back into the Union [Music] fold Lincoln informed the South Carolina governor on April 6th that the federal government would attempt to resupply Sumpter but no men arms or ammunition would be included except in case of attack Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered General board to demand Anderson to surrender Fort Sumpter if Anderson refused board was to order an artillery strike on April 12th Anderson informed Confederate Colonel James Chestnut that unless he received new orders or supplies he would surrender the fort at noon on April 15th this was not the unwavering promise that board was looking for Anderson was told that Bard would open up with artillery within the hour adner double day a captain serving under major Anderson later wrote about the incident 19 batteries were now hammering at us and the balls and shells from the 10-in colomb ads accompanied by shells from the 13-in mortars which constantly bombard us made us feel as if the war had commenced in Earnest our Fort had been built with reference to the penetration of shot when the old system of smooth War guns prevailed the balls from the new Blakeley gun on cumming's point however had Force enough to go entirely through the wall which sheltered us and some of the fragments of brick which were knocked out wounded several of my Detachment the firing continued all day they had a great advantage over us as their fire was concentrated on the fort which was in the center of the circle while ours was diffused over the circumference the night was an anxious one for us the batteries fired upon us at stated intervals all night long we did not return the fire having no ammunition to waste by 11:00 a.m. of the next day the configuration was terrible and disastrous 1/5 of the fort was on fire and the wind drove the smoke and dense masses into the angle where we all had taken Refuge it seemed impossible to escape suffocation on the afternoon of April 13th major Anderson agreed to a truce and he evacuated Fort Sumpter the next day despite the artillery bombardment and the fire there was no loss of life on either side of the conflict but by another Reckoning over 600,000 would die as a result of the firing on Fort Sumpter because the war had well and truly begun and there would be no looking back citing the presidential powers given in the militia acts of 1792 Lincoln called for the remaining states of the Union to send troops to recapture the Forts and preserve the Union against Insurrection initially Lincoln called for 75,000 volunte who would serve for 90 days in the face of this call four more States Tennessee Arkansas North Carolina and Virginia deeded though they had resisted calls to join the Confederacy for months they refused to support a military response against their fellow southern states to reward Virginia birthplace of Washington Jefferson Madison and many other founding fathers Richmond Virginia became the capital of the Confederacy Abraham Lincoln reached out to one prominent Virginia a 25-year veteran and offered him command of the Union Army Robert E Lee son of revolutionary war hero lighthorse Harry Lee declined the offer on April 20th he resigned his Commission in the US Army and on the 23rd he took command of Virginia's forces in the early days of the war both the union and Confederacy had an easy time raising volunteers as far south as Tula Louisiana a young woman named Kate Stone wrote of her brother's desire to fight for the confeder y May 15th my brother started at Daybreak this morning for New Orleans he goes as far as Vicksburg on Horseback he's wild to be off to Virginia he so fears that the fighting will be over before he can get there that he has decided to give up the plan of raising a company and going out as a captain he has about 50 men on his roles and they and Uncle Bo have empowered him to sign their names as members of any company he may select Mama regrets so that my brother would not wait and complete his commission he could get his compliment of men in 2 weeks and having been educated at a military school gives him a great Advantage at this time and we think they will be fighting for many more days indeed there would be Kate Stone's brother returned 10 days later having missed the company he hoped to join he joined the Jeff Davis Gods at Vicksburg and was elected third Lieutenant it is an Irish Company officered by Americans they leave for Richmond on Monday and so my brother and Uncle Bo get off in the morning as early as possible The Poon will be dreadful for mama she so depends on my brother her oldest and best Beloved the boys are disgruntled because they cannot go too [Applause] the north was also able to attract a large number of volunteers Jacob Dolson Cox was a Republican senator of Ohio who was later commissioned a brigadier general in the Ohio militia he described the response to Lincoln's call for volunteers the great mass of the people of the north forgetting all party distinctions answered with an enthusiastic patriotism that swept politicians off their feet but although some states such as Ohio were enthusiastic they had much to do to be prepared for war when Mr linkoln issued his first call for troops the existing laws made it necessary that these should be fully organized and officered by the several States then the treasury was in no condition to Bear the burden of War expenditures until Congress could assemble the president was forced to rely on the states to furnish the means necessary for the equipment and transportation of their own troops the governor spoke of the embarrassment he felt at every step from the lack of practical military experience in his staff and of his desire to have someone on whom he could properly throw the details of military work that's someone to whom the Ohio governor turned would later be responsible for organizing the Union's Army of the pomac George B mlen at the time mullen's name was a good deal associated with that of board they were spoken of as young men of similar standing in the engineer Corps of the army and great things were expected of them both because of their scientific knowledge of their profession though mlen had been in Civil Life for some years his report on the crime Ian war was one of the few important Memoirs our old army had produced and was valuable enough to give a just reputation for comprehens of understanding of military organization and the promise of ability to conduct the operations of an army nonetheless men were flocking to enlist these ill equipped ill-prepared soldiers would discover the reality of War not long after reaching Washington with the confederacy's capital now in Richmond the seats of the Union and Confederate governments were now just 100 miles apart over the next 4 years hundreds of thousands of Americans would fight bleed and die in this short span it began poorly for the union with the first battle of Bull Run or first battle of Manasses as the Victorious Confederates named it in mid July the 90-day enlistments that Lincoln called for after Fort Sumpter were about to expire Lincoln felt pressure from the public to act editorials in Northern papers clamored for general-in-chief Winfield Scott to strike for the capital of the Confederacy on to Richmond they cried Lincoln hoped a more limited attack at the Confederate forces Gathering just across the pic in Manasses Virginia would be able to accomplish what he wanted most a quick end to the Insurrection without doing irreparable harm to the South and so Brigadier General Irvin McDowell was sent to lead his unseasoned troops into battle with PGT bards equally unseasoned Confederate troops near the vital rail Junction in Manasses you are green it is true Lincoln told McDow but they are green also McDow moved his army of 34,000 out of Washington on July 16th board's 25,000 Confederate troops awaited him about 25 Mi Southwest of Washington at Manasses Junction after a slow disorganized March the Union forces neared their [Music] destination a minor Skirmish on July 18th accomplished nothing and McDow resolved to assault the Confederates Left Flank while sending diversionary strikes at the Confederates Center and right flank but it was another two days before his troops moved into position during that time a crowd of onlookers including congressmen gathered around the union Camp Union Major General James fry described the scene during the 19th and 20th the bivaak of mcdow's army at Centerville almost within Cannon range of the enemy were thronged by visitors official and unofficial who came in carriages from Washington bringing their own supplies they were under no military restraint and pass pass to and fro among the troops as they pleased giving the scene the appearance of a monster military picnic by this time board's Army had been reinforced by General Joseph E Johnston General board later wrote General mcdal fortunately for my plans spent the 19th and 20th in reconnaissance and meanwhile General Johnston brought 8,34 men from the shenandoa valley with 20 guns and general Holmes brought 1,265 Rank and file with six pieces of artillery from AA Creek as these forces arrived most of them in the afternoon of the 20th I placed them chiefly so as to strengthen my left Center and left one Confederate officer would gain a nickname during this battle that would follow him long after his own death Brigadier General Thomas J Jackson was praised for his defense of the Strategic Henry Hill we arrived there just as general Barnard be's troops after giv way were fleeing into zor they had come around between the base of the hill and the stone bridge into a shallow Ravine which ran up to a point on the crest where Jackson had already formed his Brigade every segment of landine we succeeded in forming was again dissolve while another was being formed it was at this moment that general b used the famous expression look at Jackson's Brigade it stands like a stone wall and so was Stonewall Jackson christened at first Manasses order was restored in the Confederate line and things began to go badly for the north Major General fry later wrote of the battle's turn the batteries of rickets and Griffin by their fine discipline wonderful daring and matchless skill are the prime features in the fight the battle was not lost till they were lost a regiment of artillery moved out of the woods to Captain Charles Griffin's right he was about to open fire with his artillery when his commanding officer stopped him the Infantry were wearing blue believing them to be Union troops Griffin held his fire a moment more the doubtful regiment proved its identity by a deadly volley and as Griffin States in His official report every caner was cut down and a large number of horses killed leaving the battery perfectly helpless the loss of the artillery and the arrival of Confederate reinforcements was too much the UN forces were soon forced into a retreat it began as an orderly withdrawal but turned into a full panicked route though much smaller than some battles that would occur later in the war at the time Bull Run or Manasses was the largest battle in American history the union suffered almost 500 dead and 2500 wounded captured or missing in comparison the Confederate troops lost almost 400 dead 1,600 wounded and a handful missing the Confederate victory in this fight led many in the South to think that they had all but won the [Music] war but despite the sense of humiliation and despair among many in the north the defeated manassis actually served to strengthen Union forces the day after the route at Bull Run Lincoln signed a bill calling for the enlistment of 500,000 volunteers these to serve 3 years rather than 3 months McDow would bear the brunt of the blame for the defeat Lincoln would soon remove him from command to be replaced by the general whose organizational skills had so impressed Senator and general Jacob Cox of Ohio Major General George B mclen would be named general-in-chief of the Union [Music] armies mclen would eventually prove disappointing as a commander in the field but his ability to inspire his men and turn a ragtag bunch of raw recruits into the best trained professional Army on the continent would put the Union on the path to military victory but victory for the north was still four long years [Music] away fondly do we hope fervently do we pray that this Mighty scourge of War may speedily pass away yet if God Wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the Lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said 3,000 years ago so still it must be said the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous all together [Music] thanks for watching if you'd like to help us produce more compelling historical content like this please like comment below and share this video with fellow history Buffs and of course be sure to subscribe to help keep history happening [Music]