PLEASE HELP ME DIRECTIONS: Carefully read through Sources B-E. As you do, 1) highlight points that argue for Abolitionists, and 2) underline points that argue for the preservation of slave states and states’ rights in general.

Source B: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820

… this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union… we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other…to regulate the condition of the different descriptions of men composing a state. this certainly is the exclusive right of every state, which nothing in the constitution has taken from them and given to the general government. could congress, for example say that the Non-freemen of Connecticut, shall be freemen, or that they shall not emigrate