1915. Albert T. Bledsoe, professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia and a published pro slavery ideologue, criticized the excessive individualism of abolitionists as a threat to the Union and reasoned that secession was the logical end of their efforts. This is one of his writings arranged without verbal changes from Is Davis a Traitor? Contents: Is the Constitution a Compact? ; Webster Scouts the Idea that the States Acceded to the Constitution; The First Resolution Passed by the Convention of 1787; The Constitution of 1787 a Compact; The Constitution of 1787 a Compact between the States-The Facts of the Case; The Constitution a Compact between the States-The Language of the Constitution; The Constitution of 1787 a Compact between the States-The Views of Certain of the Framers of the Constitution; The Constitution of 1787 a Compact between the States-Mr. Webster Again; The Absurdities Flowing From the Doctrine that the Constitution is Not a Compact between the States, But Was Made by the People of America as One Nation; The Hypothesis that the People of America Form One Nation; Arguments in Favor of the Right of Secession; Arguments Against the Right of Secession; Was Secession Treason? ; The Causes of Secession; and The Legislators of 1787 as Political Prophets.