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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabama: Delivered in the National Democratic Convention, Charleston, April 28th, 1860; With the Protest of the Alabama Delegation
This being the state of the case, will you look backupon the pastand see what is already history-upon this matter? Notice when and how, at an early day, our institutions were assailed? A young State was seeking admission into the Unio$n as an equal with all her sisters, and coming with the same coronet upon her brow that Virginia and the Carolinas and Georgia and New York and New Jersey wore when the Union was formed - that of Atrican slavery. She was met at the very doors of the Union, and was rudely repulsed until it could be considered whether indeed her continuance as a slave State was to be allowed. _that consideration resulted in the admission of Missouri, upon what has been miscalled a compro mise, upon the basis that thereafter no slaveholder should be allowed to settle and hold slaves in four-fifths of the public domain - while in the balance every citizen might settle and enjoy equal'rights - all of which has been decided to be a great wrong by the highest and most respected of all the tribunals of our country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
