READ THE FOLLOWING QUOTES AND ANSWER THE QUESTION BELOW


“Where shall we expect the approach of danger, shall some transatlantic giant step across
and crush us at a blow—never! All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take
a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a thousand years. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher as a nation of free men forever, or die from s*****e.”



“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perceptual exercise of the ...Masters unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other ...indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”


How do these quotes reflect the growing realization that the division between the North and South had the potential to dissolve the Union?