Excerpt from The Seventh Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Cavalry: Its Record, Reminiscences and Roster; With an Appendix There was but one: the institution of human slavery. Discarded by seven of the States that had joined in the formation of a. More perfect Union, after the Revolution, it was retained by their six sis ters of the South, who clung to it because of inherit ance, and from motives of convenience and economy. They deemed it to be essential to their comfort, and necessary for their prosperity. They not only desired 1ts perpetuation at home, but demanded as a right the privilege of carrying it with them into any terri tory acquired 'by the Union where it could be profit. Ably utilized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.