. . . was not an advocate of “one nation indivisible,” explains the great Clyde Wilson. He was a nullifier and a secessionist, and not an “abstractionist.” He would have thought that today’s Straussian abstractionists were a crazed, dangerous cult. And he proposed to the Virginia legislature a means of peacefully ending slavery in Virginia before the nineteenth century.
6:37 pm on January 17, 2014