“The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party.” PeopleWellsLongWarStatesGrowthPartyRightsCitizensElementsIncreaseSlaveryDefinedCivil WarSouthernPortionsAggressionThreatenedRapidsSystematicAgitationWantonConstitutional RightsRapid Growth Author:Isham G. Harris
