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Senator Henry Clay, speech to the Senate, February 12, 1833 I merely throw out these sentiments for the purpose of showing you that South Carolina, having declared her purpose to be this

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Senator Henry Clay, speech to the Senate, February 12, 1833 I merely throw out these sentiments for the purpose of showing you that South Carolina, having declared her purpose to be this. to make an experiment whether, by a comee of legislation, in a conventional form. or legislative form of enaconent. she can defeat the execution of certain laws of the United States, I for one, will express my opinion that i believe it is utterly impracticable, whatever course of legislation she may choose to adopt, for her to succeed. . . . I say it is impossible that South Carolina ever desired fora moment to beeolne a separate and independent state.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 1860 VL Maine Oregon Minn. Wise N.H. Come New York SMass. Territories Michigan -R.L. Penn Conn Town New Jersey Illinois Ind Ohio Md. Del California Virginia Missouri KeMucky North Unorganized Tennessee Carolina Arkansas South Carolina Ala. Georgia Texas Miss. Louisiana Fla.\ Party Candidate Popular vote Electoral vote Republican Republican Lincoln 1,866,452 180 Southern Democratic Southern Democratic Breckinridge 847.781 72 Northern Democratic Northern Democratic Douglas 1,376.957 12 Constitutional Union Constitutional Union Bell 588,879 39 Will Split

Source: "Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention." ?rst armuai report of the American Anti-Slavery Society. 1334 {Wk believe and af?rm: That everyr American citizen who retains a human being in involuntary bondage as his property is {according to Scripture) a MAN STEALER. That the slaves ought instantly to he set free. . . . That all those laws which are now in force. admitting the right of slavery. are . . . . before God. utterly null and void. being an audacious usurpation of the Divine prerogative. . . . [Tlhat no compensation should be given to the planters emancipating their slaves. . . . [That]. if compensation is to be given at all. it should be given to the outraged and guiltless slaves and not to those who have plundered and abused them. [That] we concede the Congress under the present national compact. has no right to interfere with any of the slave states. in relation to this momentous subject [slavery]. But we maintain that Congress has a right . . . to suppress the domestic slave trade between the several states. and to abolish slavery in those portions of our territory which the Constitution has placed under its [Congress's] exclusive jurisdiction.

Source: Senator Daniel Webster. speech to the Senate. Match T. 1850 Mr. Resident. i wish to speak today. not as a Northem man. but as an American. .. . I will state . . . one complaint oftlie South . . . that there has been found at the North. among individuals and among the legislatures of the North. a disinclination to perform fully their constitutional duties in regard to the return of persons bound to service who have escaped into the Free states. In that respect, it is my judgement that the South is right and the North 1:: wrong. . . . I hear with pain and anguish the word "secession." especially when it falls from the lips of those who are emminnently [.rt'c] patriotic, and ltnown to the country. and known all over the World for their political services. Secession! Peaceahle secession! Sir. your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. . . . i hold the idea of a separation of these states—those that are free to form one government and those that are slaveholding to form another—as a moral impossibility. We could not separate the states by any such line if we were to draw it. We could not sit down here today and draw a line of separation that would satisfy any ?ve men in the country.

Source: Muscogee, Georgia, Herald, quoted in the New York Tribune, September 10, 1856 Free society! We sicken at the name. What is it but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moon-struck theorists? All northern, and especially the New England, states are devoid of society fitted for well-bred southern gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet are hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman's body servant.

Source: Abraham Lincoln, speech at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858 You may say . . . that all of this difficulty in regard to the institution of slavery is the mere agitation of office seekers and ambitious Northern politicians. . . . But is it true that all of the difficulty and agitation we have in regard to this institution of slavery springs from office seeking-from the mere ambition of politicians? . . . How many times have we had danger from this question? .. . [Djoes not this question make a disturbance outside of political circles? Does it not enter into the churches and rend them asunder? . . . Is it not this same mighty, deep- seated power that somehow operates on the minds of men, exciting and stirring them up in every avenue of society -in politics, in religion, in literature, in morals, in all manifold relations in life? Is this the work of politicians?