"The very mudsills of society…. We call them slaves…. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere; it is eternal."

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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesMembers of the United States SenateJournalists from South CarolinaGovernors of South Carolina
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Speech in the U. S. Senate, March, 1858.

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Speech in the U. S. Senate, March, 1858.