Slave Revolts, Devilish Priests, and Infernal Landscapes

[MisterP]

1. it's interesting how the "great enemy" subverting the Republic has morphed, while the details

of what and how are unchanged over centuries: 1790s-1800s it was the British, Papists, and French, 30s it was the Masons and banks, 50s the Irish, 70s the Chinese, 80s the Italians, 90s the Poles, 1910s the Germans, 20s the Reds, 40s the Jews, 50s Commies, 70s and 90s Muslims (and Irish a little)

complaints against the "Slave Power" could also use this rhetoric, but the Southern press after Sumner's beating outright said they'd grab Northern whites if the Fugitive Slave Act had let them, so ...