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Like their Puritan forebears, however, Greater New Englanders leavened their moralism with incorrigible commerciality. Successful joint-stock companies were their spiritual Michaelmas feasts, miles of fat white pine logs rafting down the Saginaw, Muskegon, and Au Sable were their harvest homes. Sabbatarians couldn't resist starting all-but-Sunday stagecoach lines. Abolitionists opened up free-grown produce groceries. New Englanders were also, in Hamilton's apt description, "navigating," while southern firebrands like the Cavaliers of the 1640s, rarely knew a foremast from a forecastle. Here again one must be struck by the parallel between the English and American pre-Civil War polarizations.

Which brings us to the question of irrepressibility: Why was another such fight necessary in 1861?

Kevin Phillips. The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. Basic Books. © 1999.