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Gentlemen, I see before me men who have observed all the records of human life, and many, perhaps, who have been chief actors in many of its gravest scenes, and I ask such men if in all their lore of human society they can offer an example like this? South Carolina has 300,000 whites, and 400,000 slaves. These 300,000 whites depend for their whole system of civilization on these 400,000 slaves. Twenty millions of people, with one of the strongest Governments on the face of the earth, decree the extermination of these 400,000 slaves, and then ask, is honor, is interest, is liberty, is right, is justice, is life, worth the struggle? Gentlemen, I have thus very rapidly endeavored to group before you the causes which have produced the action of the people of South Carolina. -- Speech of John Preston to the Virginia Convention

John Preston was in concurrence

[BroJoeK]

Nice work!

[DiogenesLamp]

John Preston was in concurrence

So was Abraham Lincoln.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...

That and his acceptance of the proposed 13th amendment confirming slavery forever, is all you need to know about "honest" Abe.