[Mr Ramsbotham]

Because once you established that a black person was a person and not property ANYWHERE, it threatened slavery EVERYWHERE, and that was not tolerable in the South.

And it took the election of an anti-slavery Republican to finally get the slave states to secede, which they did virtually overnight--even though they'd had decades to do it over those blasted tariffs.

[LS]

LOL. You’re right. And Calhoun said something quite chilling which was a foreshadowing of the “gay” “hate speech” kinds of laws: he said that protection of slave property meant protection against any discussion or criticism of the RIGHT to own slave property!!