South Carolina Quotes

“Look down that aisle, there's a nigger as black as the ace of spades!”

“North Carolina, South Carolina, and all my little itty-bitty hick towns.”

“South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.”

“South Carolina, a state filled with evangelicals and active and retired military.”

“To talk of maintaining our independence while we abolish slavery is simply to talk folly.”

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“South Carolina, come on and raise up! This one's for you! This one's for who? Us, us, us! Yes, sir!”

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“The whites have absolute control of the State government, and we intend at any and all hazards to retain it.”

“We don't need another race to help us at this time. In some of the states, the Negro holds the vote of control.”

“We can trust white men to do right by the inferior race, but we cannot trust the inferior race with power over the white man.”

“Anti-slavery is essentially infidel. It wars upon the Bible, on the Church of Christ, on the truth of God, on the souls of men.”

“Almost nine hundred and ninety nine out of every thousand of the decent people of South Carolina belong to the Democratic Party.”

“We deny, without regard to color, that 'all men are created equal'; it is not true now, and was not true when Jefferson wrote it.”

“Republicanism means Negro equality, while the Democratic Party means that the white man is supreme. That is why we Southerners are all Democrats.”

“South Carolina... is more ideologically conservative, with a stronger local party leadership and a tradition of preferring mainstream candidates.”

“We reorganized the Democratic Party with one plank and only one plank, namely, that this is a white man's country and the white men must govern it.”

“The triumphs of Christianity rest this very hour upon slavery; and slavery depends on the triumphs of the south... This war is the servant of slavery.”

“A Philadelphia writer on this subject, Mr. A. K. McClure, declares that such prejudice was much stronger in his own State, in 1886, than in South Carolina.”

“Slaves shall be deemed, taken, reputed, and adjudged to be chattels personal in the hands of their masters, and possessions to all intents and purposes whatsoever.”