Presidential Stance Quotes



He also quoted this pledge in his Inaugural Address of March 4, 1837. Van Buren was a New Yorker but took this position to curry favor with the South and the merchants of New York City who made a great deal of money on the cotton trade of the Southern slave plantations. He kept his immoral pledge as the issue of slavery moved the nation closer and closer to the Civil War.


War and international conflict had become very complicated in modern times. Americans and most other people associated victory in war with unconditional surrender. However, since the unconditional surrender is of WWII, no conflict has ended with an unconditional surrender.