Here is another gem from "The Failure of Universal Suffrage", 

"Liberty was the watchword of our fathers, and so it is of our selves. But, in their hearts, the masses of the nation cherish desires not only different from it, but inconsistent with it. They want equality more than they want liberty... every day more and more, the masses hug the flattering illusion that one man is essentially about as good as another." 

 @13f2e0b3 sadly, the south lost the Civil War, and the slide towards Progressivism was inevitable from that point.