""A Vindication of Secession and the South from the Strictures of Reverend R. J. Breckinridge in the Danville Quarterly (1861)"" is a historical book written by Benjamin Morgan Palmer. It was published in 1861, during the early stages of the American Civil War, and it defends the secession of the southern states from the Union. The book is a response to a critical article written by Reverend R. J. Breckinridge in the Danville Quarterly, which argued...