"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."
"You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers."
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Source: John Henninger Reagan's speech (January 15, 1861), as quoted in the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 2nd Session (p. 391); also quoted in Kenneth M. Stampp The Causes of the Civil War (p. 89), 1959.
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