John Taylor and Construction

 

States’ rights may have been the defining force in Antebellum America, but modern, mainstream historians would have you believe that they were nothing more than a wicked creed cooked up by a few corrupt slaveowners. A review of a recent biography of John Taylor of Caroline referred to his “opprobrium” as the “premier states’ rights philosopher.” It would have been news to Taylor, who wrote brilliant books on everything from basic principles to specific issues, that States’ rights were all part of a conspiracy to protect slavery. According to one historian who delights in deconstructing Southern “honor,” States’ rights were merely the “rationale” with which the South “presented” her defense of slavery, the “paramount” interest of her “ideology.” According to this past president of the Southern Historical Association, Southern culture itself was just another rationale for slavery.

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