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Memoir 1, Page 17, 'Fired the Southern Heart'

"All over the South political and religious leaders sought to array those States against the general government; They fired the Southern heart until, anon, secession brought them to a new and responsible atitude."

This quote was used in a variety of places but is most likely taken from a 1858 letter by William Lowndes Yancey about party politics and early thoughts on rebellion and secession: "No National Party can save us; no Sectional Party can do it. But if we could do as our fathers did, organize committeess of safety all over the cotton States... we shall fire the Southern heart--instruct the Southern mind--give courage to each other, and at the proper moment, by one organized, concerted action, we can precipitate the cotton States into a Revolution."