Southern political leaders were threatening to take their states out of the Union if a Republican president was elected on a platform restricting slavery.
p. 188 - This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War (2007)
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
