The very mudsills of society…. We call them slaves…. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere; it is eternal.


Speech in the U. S. Senate, March, 1858.


The very mudsills of society…. We call them slaves…. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is...

The very mudsills of society…. We call them slaves…. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is...

The very mudsills of society…. We call them slaves…. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is...

The very mudsills of society…. We call them slaves…. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is...