11-18-13
Former Governor John Hammond of South Carolina gave an impassioned speech retroactively styled “Cotton is King” at a pro-slavery event on Kansas in 1857. In this speech, he makes a number of points, few of which are sustainable based on evidence. He argued that the nation would be insane to go to war against the states responsible for the production of cotton (Hammond, 302) when it is the most stable commodity the US has to offer the world. (Hammond, 302) He basically argues that it would be economic suicide for the United States to turn against the production of cotton by ...
