FEINBERG/WHITMAN    NOTES and NOTEBOOKS    NOTES--Literary   UNDATED  Anti-Slavery (DCN 121)
                                
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   Anti-slavery is largely 
due to the South. It may 
almost be said that Jefferson
began it; - he is the originator, in brief, and nine-tenths 
of the [you] leading men of 
the Southern States (Henry Clay & others), openly or otherwise have
affiliated with him. The 
most ardent & honest opponents
of slavery in the U.S. have 
been Southerners born & raised. 
*(Washington, Patrick Henry, 
Madison, Monroe, John Randolph, Henry Clay, 
and others) 
   From 1776 to 1832 the stream 
set steadily & accumulated in 
the South. Down to the latter
period, in Virginia, the opposition
to Slavery was stern & [determ]
active. [in Virginia] Then commenced
the Northern Abolitionists societies
with their extremism & their firebrands
-- then arose [J] Calhoun --825