"I AM aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as Truth, and as uncompromising as Justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. ... Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen—but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead."

Following the Second Great Awakening and the emergence of the Abolitionist movement, Southerners defended slavery with which of the following arguments?
1. Slavery was defended as a necessary evil that was economically beneficial to the nation.
2. Slavery was defended as a positive good for enslaved people
3. Slavery was defended as a labor system that could replace indentured servitude.
4. Slavery was defended as a natural consequence of capitalism.