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William Mason Grosvenor Analysis

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William Mason Grosvenor took issue with the illegal secession of the Confederate States and why they were able to possess all their constitutional rights as member states of the United States. He believed that the Northern states had the right to dictate social changes in the Southern states, on the foundation that the South was practicing laws that disregarded the Nation’s Constitutional laws. Grosvenor argues that because the North won the Civil War, that they have the right to enforce Northern laws upon the Southern states. Others like Herman Melville, argue that the North should provide a humane and range-free reconstruction policy on the Southern states. (Dudley 9). Overall, the North is able to make the claim that the South violates Constitutional

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