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John Henninger Reagan Quotes

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

John Henninger Reagan
Men, White Man, United States

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

John Henninger Reagan
Respect, Character, Rights

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

John Henninger Reagan
Fruit, Conflict, Irrepressible
John Henninger Reagan (1906). “Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War”

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

John Henninger Reagan
People, Southern, Dollars

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

John Henninger Reagan
Self, Injustice, Domination
John Henninger Reagan (1906). “Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War”

You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

John Henninger Reagan
Fishing, Law, People
John Henninger Reagan's speech (January 15, 1861), as quoted in the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 2nd Session (p. 391); also quoted in Kenneth M. Stampp "The Causes of the Civil War" (p. 89), 1959.

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