Laurence M. Keitt Quotes

• African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.

  Laurence M. Keitt

  War, Political, Fabric

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• The anti-slavery party contend that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right, and that this is a confederate Republic of sovereign States.

  Laurence M. Keitt

  Party, Government, Democracy

  "Congressman from South Carolina, in a speech to the House". The Congressional Globe, January 25, 1860.

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