publications and his speeches when his auto-biography reached Southern audiences, which his speeches couldnot do. A former neighbor from Talbot County, A. C. C. Thompson,attempted to respond to theNarrativeand
It had a wide mixture of nationalities, a varied society, the mixed town and county system of local government, a varied economic life, many religious sects. In short, it was a region mediating between New England and the South, and the East and the West. It represented that composite ...