The North, which brought the Africans here in its ships, finding slave labor unprofitable, sold its slaves to the South at a good price, and turned pious.

The South took the bait and went crazy.
Finally, we had a pretty kettle of fish.

Just as the Prohibitionists are going to convert mortals into angels overnight by act of assembly--or still better, by Constitutional amendment--were the short-haired women and the long-haired men of Boston going to make a white man out of the black man by Abolition.

The Southern Whigs could not see it and would not stand for it.

So they fell in behind the Democrats.