We can today open wide the history of their …– Robert Toombs
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon
In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and
Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States – no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section
They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security
I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before
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