Excerpt from Reconstruction in North Carolina North Carolina after November 21, 1789, the day on which she adopted the Constitution of the United States, was, while closely allied by association, blood, and interest with the South ern States, strongly attached to the Union. Stirred at times by sectional feeling, acting always in the interest of the slave States, when the sectional issue was drawn, the deep love for the Union in all classes Of the people prevented any great spread Of disunion sentiment until long after most Of the Southern States looked upon secession as by no means a remote possibility. 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.