# Gettysburg

- Author: [Allen Guelzo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-guelzo.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-guelzo/gettysburg

## Quotes

> [M]any quite frankly fought to protect slavery, which laid on the survivors of the rebel armies an incubus to which few were willing to admit in alter years. More than just one out of three Confederates whose campfires dotted South Mountain in the June dusk owned slaves... [T]hey brought slaves with them on campaign to tend to the menial jobs... The slave system had invested them with an instinctive impulse for domestic dictatorship; they could brawl, stab, and shoot, in and out of race tracks and saloons, and still assume that they were God's natural aristocrats.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-guelzo/gettysburg/m-any-quite-frankly.md)

> Defending slavery deprived the Confederate soldier to the same claim to nobility, but not to tragedy.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-guelzo/gettysburg/defending-slavery-deprived.md)

> [E]mancipation cannot be so easily detached from union (which is another way of saying that racial justice and liberal democracy rise or fall with each other).

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-guelzo/gettysburg/e-mancipation-cannot-be-so-easily.md)

> [N]o democracy worth its name could continue to drag the burden of slavery around after it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-guelzo/gettysburg/n-o-democracy-worth.md)

> From the moment they took a republic rather than a monarchy as the shape of their government, Americans prided themselves on being a nation of peace, dedicated to the arts of commerce rather than the rapacity of empire and "the spirit of war."

p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-guelzo/gettysburg/from-the-moment.md)

> Union (and the liberal democracy it represented) and emancipation were not, after all, mutually exclusive goals. Unless the Union was restored, there would be no practical possibility of emancipation, since the overwhelming majority of American slaves would, in that case, end up living in a foreign country, and beyond the possible grasp of Lincoln's best antislavery intensinos.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-guelzo/gettysburg/union-and-the.md)