Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.

I desire to keep slavery and black people in the South in order to reserve the territories solely for white people.

Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized

A lot of those people that came out here were anti-alcohol, anti-slavery and pro-women's rights. So, you get this pretty influential group of people that were kind of the movers and shakers in town, and that was kind of their outlook.