There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.