Abolitionists who continued to reside in the slave States were forced to recognize the fact that emancipation involved serious questions of race adjustment.

From the border States came the colonization society, a characteristic institution, as well as compromise of every variety.
The southernmost section, including South Carolina, Georgia, and the Gulf States, was even more sharply defined in the attitude it assumed toward the anti-slavery movement.

At no time did the cause of emancipation become formidable in this section.

In all these States there was, of course, a large class of non-slaveholding whites, who were opposed to slavery and who realized that they were victims of an injurious system; but they had no effective organ for expression.

The ruling minority gained an early and an easy victory and to the end held a firm hand.