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Henry Clay: In Clay’s opinion, the only institution with the constitutional authority to legally act against slavery is:

Henry Clay: Clay thinks that slavery is clearly and obviously evil.

Reflection: Which of these sources did you find most personally interesting? Why?

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?