Henry Clay: Clay offers to share his opinions on slavery and abolition in this letter to John Switzer on what condition?

John Ross: What step or steps has the Cherokee nation taken to defend itself so far?

Alexander Stephens: What irony does Stephens note in the position of northerners on slavery and secession?

Henry Clay: Clay thinks that slavery is clearly and obviously evil.

Robert E Lee: When Lee writes that “It is useless to expatiate on [the] disadvantages” of slavery, what does he mean?

Henry Clay: Clay is glad that his original proposal to slowly abolish slavery in Kentucky failed.

Ulysses Grant: What common form of corruption does Grant mention trying to avoid?

Reflection: Which of these sources did you find most personally interesting? Why?

Henry Clay: In Clay’s opinion, the only institution with the constitutional authority to legally act against slavery is:

William Lloyd Garrison: What does Garrison think of secession?