Title
Speech to the House
Creator
Howell Cobb
Source
Howell Cobb, "The South Is at Your Mercy," in The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection, ed. William E. Gienapp (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001), 28-29.
Date
1847
Questions
- What alternative to the Wilmot Proviso did Cobb support in this speech?
- What would have been a policy of “neutrality” on the issue of slavery in the territories?
- According to Cobb, what was the role of compromise in the Union?