DOCUMENT TWO WHAT CAUSED SECESSION? This excerpt is from a speech given by Albert Gallatin Brown, a Mississippi politician, on September 26, 1860: [The Northerners] hate us now, and they teach their children in their schools and churches to hate our children. . . . The John Brown raid, the burning of Texas, the stealthy tread of abolitionists among us, tell the tale. . . . The North is accumulating power, and it means to use that power to emancipate your slaves. When that is done, no pen can describe . . . the horrors that will overspread this country. . . . Disunion is a fearful thing, but emancipation is worse. Better leave the Union in the open face of day, than be lighted from it at midnight by the [arsonist’s] torch. Question: How does this statement help to explain why so many non-slaveholding Southerners supported slavery?(Doc2)
DOCUMENT TWO
WHAT CAUSED SECESSION?
This excerpt is from a speech given by Albert Gallatin Brown, a Mississippi politician, on
September 26, 1860:
[The Northerners] hate us now, and they teach their children in their schools and churches
to hate our children. . . . The John Brown raid, the burning of Texas, the stealthy tread of
abolitionists among us, tell the tale. . . . The North is accumulating power, and it means to
use that power to emancipate your slaves. When that is done, no pen can describe . . . the
horrors that will overspread this country. . . . Disunion is a fearful thing, but emancipation
is worse. Better leave the Union in the open face of day, than be lighted from it at midnight
by the [arsonist’s] torch.
Question:
How does this statement help to explain why so many non-slaveholding Southerners supported slavery?(Doc2)
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