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 James Buchanan quotes 
Suggest Revision: The Constitution...expressly recognizes the right to hold slaves as property in states where slavery exists. This, then, is not a question of general morality, affecting the consciences of men, but it is a question of constitutional law...The southern states have rights guaranteed to them, and these rights I am determined to maintain, come weal, come woe.
 
 Michelle Alexander quotes 
Suggest Revision: Nine southern states adopted vagrancy laws, which essentially made it a criminal offense not to work and were applied selectively to blacks.
 
 John H Reagan quotes 
Suggest Revision: The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
 
 George Mason quotes 
Suggest Revision: As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
 
 Fanny Kemble quotes 
Suggest Revision: Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.
 
 Corrine Brown quotes 
Suggest Revision: Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
 
 Omar N Bradley quotes 
Suggest Revision: In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
 
 Belle Boyd quotes 
Suggest Revision: The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
 
 Leonard Bacon quotes 
Suggest Revision: If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.
 
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