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Henry Clay: Clay offers to share his opinions on slavery and abolition in this letter to John Switzer on what condition?

Jefferson Davis: Why does Davis think that Andrew Jackson’s threat of military action against South Carolina during the nullification controversy is a poor justification for using force to bring seceded states back into the Union?

Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln carefully distinguishes his official policy position as president from his personal wish that all men could be free.

Frederick Douglass: Douglass argues for slow, lenient measures to defeat the South and restore the Union.

Horace Greeley: To what previous political controversy, which stemmed from “precisely the same question,” does Greeley compare the secession crisis of the winter of 1860-61?

Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”: Howe develops extended metaphors comparing the Union war effort to what biblical event?

George McClellan: How does McClellan know that the Confederate generals opposing him are dangerous opponents?

McCarthy, “The Bonnie Blue Flag”: According to the song, Southerners would rather die than:

George Templeton Strong: What “stern anti-slavery Puritan” does Strong think “would be worth his weight in gold now” if he weren’t already dead?

George McClellan: Whom does McClellan mention as having “really sound” or correct opinions about the issue of slavery and its role in the war?