Since this question is in the “Quotations” category, I’ll answer with a quotation. From Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The Wind”: Rhett Butler: “Has any one of you gentlemen ever thought that there’s not a cannon factory south of the Mason-Dixon Line? Or how few iron foundries there are in the South? Or woolen mills or […]
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Since this question is in the “Quotations” category, I’ll answer with a quotation. From Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The Wind”: Rhett Butler: “Has any one of you gentlemen ever thought that there’s not a cannon factory south of the Mason-Dixon Line? Or how few iron foundries there are in the South? Or woolen mills or cotton factories or tanneries? Have you thought that we would not have a single warship and that the Yankee fleet could bottle up our harbors in a week, so that we could not sell our cotton abroad? But - of course - you gentlemen have thought of these things. “The trouble with most of us Southerners is that we either don’t travel enough, or we don’t profit enough from our travels…. I have spent the last few years in the North. I have seen many things that you all have not seen. The thousands of immigrants who’d be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines - all the things we haven’t got. Why, all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance.” I’ve always thought that passage summed up the challenges of the Confederacy very nicely.
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