Slavery Question Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people… — Stephen A. Douglas
• In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
• First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere - in fact that is the only question… — Henry L. Benning
• The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of… — Isham G. Harris
• But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause… — John Brown Baldwin
• It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark… — Mary Virginia Terhune

Who Wrote These Slavery Question Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 Slavery Question Quotes as follows:

• 1 Slavery Question Quote by Stephen A. Douglas
• 1 Slavery Question Quote by Abraham Lincoln
• 1 Slavery Question Quote by Henry L. Benning
• 1 Slavery Question Quote by Isham G. Harris
• 1 Slavery Question Quote by John Brown Baldwin
• 1 Slavery Question Quote by Mary Virginia Terhune