Sentences with 'southerners'
Example sentences and phrases with the word southerners and other words derived from it.
• « Other southerners, however, argued that the question was not whether the slaveholders would want to move to the Mexican Cession lands, but whether they could do so and still retain control of their slave property. To deny them the right to move freely with their rightful property was, they argued, unjust and unconstitutional. »
• « White southerners responded by making arguments in defence of slavery, their way of life, and their honour. »
• « William Walker's filibustering may have excited expansionist-minded southerners, but it greatly annoyed Vanderbilt's commercial interests in the region. »