Connecting to a larger context Source: President James Buchanan, fourth annual message to Congress (December 3, 1860)
". . . All for which the slave States have ever contended, is to be let alone and permitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way. As sovereign States, they, and they alone, are responsible before God and the world for the slavery existing among them. . . .
"The Southern States, standing on the basis of the Constitution, have a right to demand this act of justice from the States of the North. Should it be refused, then the Constitution, to which all the States are parties, will have been willfully violated by one portion of them in a provision essential to the domestic security and happiness of the remainder. In that event the injured States, after having first used all peaceful and constitutional means to obtain redress, would be justified in revolutionary resistance to the Government of the Union. . . ."
Write a short paragraph that connects this excerpt from document 2 to its larger historical context during the era in question. After your paragraph, explain how you are meeting the essay’s requirements for contextualization. (5 points)