Let's see a bigger picture... Damn the snippets.. Entire speech coming up shortly if you chose to cherry pick.
Um... I since folks don't like to read a lot I chose the relevant parts. All that stuff you posted above I put as "etc, etc, etc"...
See..... YOU might agree that "the proper condition of the African is slavery", and some others blighting these boards PROBABLY do, which is what all that is arguing, but most folks nowadays prob'ly don't.
..and like I said, over the previous half-century the South had collectively hitched it's wagon to cotton, and cotton needed slavery.......
I think the saying that applies here is "Follow the Money".
Birdwatcher
