Master this deck with 23 terms through effective study methods.
No description available
He believed negroes should not be citizens of the United States.
He argued it referred only to white men, not to negroes or other races.
He thought they should have rights consistent with societal good.
He supported each state deciding its own policy on slavery.
He saw it as a sectional organization appealing to Northern interests.
He accused Lincoln of being inconsistent between Northern and Southern audiences.
It affirmed states' rights to determine suffrage and race relations.
He believed it could exist divided into free and slave states if states respected each other's rights.
He opposed it because he believed it did not represent the will of the people.
He suggested it should include all men, including negroes, as equals.
He expressed support for negro equality in the North but opposed it in the South.
He argued these differences justified a superior-inferior relationship.
He believed they should be admitted regardless of their stance on slavery.
A strategy to align with local Democratic sentiments.
It becomes less assertive as it moves south.
The right to decide their own policies on slavery.
They represented slaveholding constituencies and did not intend to include negroes.
They can bring slaves into territories as property.
Property, including slaves, becomes unprotected and effectively worthless.
It could have led to nationwide slavery under a Constitutional provision.
The government cannot sustain itself if half is slave and half is free.
It promotes peace between Northern and Southern States.
He believes it contradicts the intentions of the Declaration's authors.