John Henninger Reagan Quotes
The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
