James Buchanan: Remarks to Congress on Slavery (1836)
Glossary
- exclusive jurisdictions separate legal powers
- foreign outside, but not necessarily “foreign” in the sense of being or coming from outside the United States
- memorial petition
- our Confederacy the United States
- the property of the master in his slave the fact, in Buchanan’s opinion, that a slave was the property of his or her master
- rising revolting
