Quotes About Matthew Mason

A few months later, Everett followed up with another missive repeating the argument that while this war may not be an abolitionist one on the Union's part due to constitutional restraints, it was a proslavery one on the Confederacy's part.

A war to end slavery seems more compelling" to twenty-first-century Americans and far less abstract than a war for union.

He thus rejected union versus abolition as a false choice and adopted as his pseudonym the rather wordy but telling "A FRIEND OF THE UNION, AND AN ENEMY OF SLAVERY."34