Colbert I. King: This virulent hostility to the Union led the Old Confederacy to conclude -- as expressed by South Carolina -- that with Lincoln's elevation to the presidency, "the slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy." Federal government as the enemy. Today there is a New Confederacy, an insurgent political force that has captured the Republican Party and is taking up where the Old Confederacy left off in its efforts to bring down the federal government.
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