Bargains Quote by Daniel Webster

“The Constitution was a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South and moneyed interests of the North. For the purpose of uniting the thirteen…

— Howard Zinn

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence…

— William H. Seward

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith

“...[at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not…

— James Madison

“Having preserved the Union and saved white workers from competing with slave labor, the North could magnanimously acquiesce to such Confederate meretriciousness and the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion…

— Isham G. Harris

When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery…

— Angelina Grimke

The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no…

— James Madison

“The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, the system of slavery and the…

— Karl Marx

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the…

— Jefferson Davis

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

— Joseph Story