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Robert Toombs

"They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world."

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"They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world."

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"If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours."

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"With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature."
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"They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories."
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"We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred."
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"Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours."
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"Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy."
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"I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings."
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"When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever."
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"We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section."
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"Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war."
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