No one could be sure what would happen then.Such was the general political and economic picture in the United States when the abolitionist movement began to make itself felt.

• 克莱也反对那些试图阻止讨论奴隶制问题的南方参议员们，他说，他们的立场是很情绪化也很极端，这与废奴主义者一样有害。