American Union Quotes
An anonymous Senator called out: That's all they need in hell.
When the 13 states were united only by the loose bonds of the Confederation, Jefferson wrote:
Missouri was to be admitted to the Union. But the anti-slavery forces of Congress insisted that slavery be outlawed in the new state. Most Southerners argued that Congress had no right to regulate the slavery issue claiming among other arguments that the fact that slavery had not been regulated in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights was evidence of the agreement of the founding fathers that slavery was never to be interfered with. However the specific agreement on the subject called for no legislation on slavery to be debated in Congress in its early years, but the time of that agreement was up. The “Missouri Compromise” ended the debate for a short time. Niles knew his fellow Southerners and felt that Civil War was coming and strived to hold the Union together by compromise even though he was a personal opponent of slavery.
The first Georgia legislature had been corrupt and had been bribed to sell huge tracts of land at cheap prices to four large speculators who in turn sold smaller parcels of land to thousands at huge profits. Over a decade later a new state legislature realizing the mistake that had been made, voted to invalidate all the sales and treat the land as public land. This solution had great popular support. However, the Supreme Court in upholding private rights ruled that the State legislature could not invalidate a legal private contract. More important, it established the precedent, still argued to this day.
Buchanan was a very indecisive and timid President who, though he claimed to oppose slavery, had bought into the Southern slavery narrative. He believed that if Slavery was ended in the South the Southern .Economy would collapse. Most historians consider him the worst American President. See {50949} for another example.
