Read the two excerpts representing contrasting views of slavery On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with
moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give
a moderate alarm... but urge me not to use moderation in a
cause like the present.
-William Lloyd Garrison,
The Liberator, 1831
On which of the following would the two writers most likely agree?
The possibility of compromise over slavery was becoming
difficult
• Slavery should gradually be eliminated in the United States
O Enslaved workers should have the right to choose to move to the
North
It might be better if the United States were to split into two
nations
However sound the great body of the non-slaveholding States
are at present in the course of a few years they will be
succeeded by those who will have been taught to hate the
people and institutions of nearly one-half of this Union, with a
hatred more deadly than one hostile nation ever entertained
towards another.
-John C. Calhoun,
February 6, 1837