Agree Quote by Robert Toombs

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves,…

— Daniel Webster

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase

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

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

“...[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

I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

“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

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should…

— William H. Seward