As part of the agreement, Hayes promised not to act aggressively to support the civil rights of black southerners.

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Instead of offering aid, they demanded that the government sell the property of southerners to pay Union war debts.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Lincoln told southerners: "You think slavery is right and should be extended, while we think it is wrong and should be limited.

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Anderson then told the southerners, "If you do not shell us to pieces, hunger will force us out in a few days."

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Yet he thought that slavery would die out naturally over time -- and that outsiders should not force southerners to end slavery.

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Most southerners believed that Clay's proposals were a reasonable way to settle the difference and protect the union.

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The southerners wanted him to recognize South Carolina and order all federal troops out of Charleston Harbor.

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Southerners cannot be trusted." The radicals also worried about what would happen to the recently freed slaves.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Southerners often said that slaves in the South lived better lives than free workers in the North.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

He said the North must recognize the rights of southerners, especially the right to take slave property into territories of the United States.

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Southerners felt that if the campaign against slavery was successful, everything they believed in would be destroyed.

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All southerners declared that they would fight to protect their homes from a Negro rebellion or from another attack by men like Brown.

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So even before the presidential election, southerners began discussing what they would do if Abraham Lincoln won.

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Southerners argued that they had the right to take slaves into New Mexico and California.

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