Ossian went well with the obsession of the slave power with pseudo feudalism, taking Walter Scott (not his fault, and surely he'd be appalled if he knew) as the model for their pseudo jousts and tournaments.

Their desire was to recreate a society that was entirely class based, but with slaves instead of serfs. Not even necessarily African heritage slaves either, by this time, but anyone who wasn't worthy of being a master-owner-aristocrat. As it was in South Carolina and always had been, no one could run for office -- or vote for a candidate -- who wasn't wealthy -- and for the top political slots there weren't even elections, they selected out of their own oligarcy who would be senator and so on. No Jacksonian democracy voters' franchise exercised in the slave society, no siree bhob!