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DOCUMENT G: Robert Rhett speech at the Nashville Convention
(September 4, 1850)
Shall the African rule here? No! We will not be governed by the
African; neither will we be by the Yankees! We must secede.
Georgia will lead off, South Carolina will go with her, Alabama will
soon follow, and Mississippi will not be long behind her.
Within eighteen months we will have the whole South with us, and
more than that, we will extend our borders, we will have New
Mexico, Utah, and California. Utah already has slaves. We will
march into California, and we will ask them if they will have slaves,
and her people will answer, Ay, we will have slaves. And what
of Mexico? Why, when we are ready for them, and her people are
fitted to come among us, we will take her too, or as much of her as
we want.
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Question 1: What does Rhett's attitude seem to be in respect to the
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