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In 1850, a Georgia congressman declared, "I avow before this House and country, and in the presence of the living God that if by your legislation you seek to drive us [slaveholders] from the territories of California and New Mexico ... I am for disunion."What does this quotation reveal about relations between the North and the South?
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