John H. Reagan

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. ↗

— John H. Reagan

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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. ↗

— John H. Reagan

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The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. ↗

— John H. Reagan

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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. ↗

— John H. Reagan

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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. ↗

— John H. Reagan

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