"Greenville adjoined the mountain section of North Carolina; many citizens of the town came from the mountains, where there were no Negroes and hence no slaves. Therefore the doctrine of States’ Rights, when invoked to justify secession by the slave states, found no fertile soil for its growth and propagation in this community."

Printed in the January 1921 Furman University Bulletin, an address given by Samuel E. McFadden, on the first Founders' Day held at Furman University, December 4, 1920. The address is entitled 'The Life and Work of Dr. James C. Furman.' Samuel E. McFadden was an 1890 graduate of Furman, not 1893 as the document states.

McFadden's Founders Day Address, November 4, 1920

In John Warner Barber. Our Whole Country: Or, The Past and Present of the United States, Historical and Descriptive. Cincinnati: H. Howe, 1861.