Excerpts
Description
The excerpt below comes from a lecture dated October 15, 1856 in the notes of W. Thurmond. The lecture is a continuation of Holcombe’s commentary on Federalist No. 9. Holcombe makes reference to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as an example of abolitionist fervor and threat to the southern social order. He also invokes here the Fugitive Slave Law as an example of the Union using federal law to protect the interests of the states.
Excerpt
“This is the case with Fug. Slave Law [sic]; states bind themselves to offer no obstacle to recovery of slaves. No higher law except inquiring “does the moral law require me to judge or obey.” (p. 6)
Date
1856/10/15