States Rights Quotes
It is often said that “elections have consequences”. The 1960 election was one that certainly had profound consequences. Lincoln was unwilling to force the Northern states to return fugitive slaves against the constitution, laws and will of the people of those states as Buchanan said he was (but had a hard time doing). Also Lincoln was unwilling to allow new territories to enter the union if they allowed slavery. In the end, most pro Slavery politicians realized that with the greater growth rate of the North, they Southern disproportionate power in the Congress was doomed as would be the institution of slavery itself. Crittendon a strong Unionist from a border state, understood the implication of Lincoln’s election for the Union.
Commenting on the legal defense of executive actions by the Obama Administration and how it applies to contesting similar executive actions by Donald Trump…
Johnson was then the Vice President. “States’ Rights” has since the beginning of our nation been the code words for the “right” to maintain slaves and after slavery was outlawed, the “right” to discriminate against Blacks—the “right” to commit wrongs.
This editorial reflected majority Southern political positions of the time. There was never going to be any compromise by ending or curtailing slavery in any way. Amongst the abolitionists, there was an equally rigid view towards compromise. Many Northerners felt that the anti-slavery Americans had been compromising for half a century and slavery was a larger institution that it ever was. They wanted no further compromise. The South had never budged from its original position at the founding of the nation. Historically, it was just a matter of time before there would be a showdown politically and probably militarily. The explosion took 10 more years.
He was also a paid lobbyist for the beer industry.
It would be almost 30 years until Jackson would have been proved correct and the Civil War had begun.
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.
Smith and his Mormon followers had been attacked and persecuted by mobs in various communities for availing themselves of their constitutional rights to follow their own religion. In those days the governor did not have command of a national guard and had to ask the President for troops to put down a mob or insurrection. Some Governors were in sympathy with the mobs and would do nothing to protect the Mormons. Smith had written to most of the then likely Presidential candidates of both major parties asking for their position on the Mormons who were facing persecution wherever they went. None of the politicians would make any satisfactory commitments. Smith took Direct Action and became the only major religious official to have run for the Presidency of the United States until Pat Robertson tried and failed in 2000. Smith’s assassination shortly thereafter cut his run for the Presidency short before it made much headway and politically he had no chance to affect the race.
