The debate which had been adjourned was on the eve of being resumed.

Complete suppression of the new scientific industrial argument against slavery seemed to slave-owners to furnish their only defense.
The Appalachian ranges of mountains drove a wedge of liberty and freedom from Pennsylvania almost to the Gulf.

In the upland regions slavery could not flourish.

There was always enmity between the planters of the coast and the dwellers on the upland.

The slaveholding oligarchy had always ruled, but the day of the uplanders was at hand.