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"The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere; it is eternal."
James H. Hammond / Speech in the U. S. Senate, March, 1858.
Speech in the U. S. Senate, March, 1858.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain