Carolina QuotesI yield to no one precedence in love for the South. But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Essay on John Bright, Virginia University Magazine, 19:354-370 (March 1880)
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- 1880
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