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1807–1864 United States

James Henry Hammond (November 15, 1807 – November 13, 1864) was a politician from South Carolina. He served as a United States representative from 1835 to 1836, governor of South Carolina from 1842 to 1842, and United States senator from 1857 to 1860.

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Also known as: Hammond, James Henry

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I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles.

You dare not make war upon cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king.

James H. Hammond (1854)

The very mudsills of society…. We call them slaves…. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere; it is eternal.

I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal."

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