A Quote by John C. Calhoun
I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
Don't worry about a sugar planter. Give him a horse and he'll ride to his own funeral.
There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.
My father was a tea planter and I grew up in different parts of Assam as his job took him there.
God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.
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