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There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.

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The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

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The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

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The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

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The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

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The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

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The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

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Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

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Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

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Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: July 2nd, 1810

Died: December 15th, 1885

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