Select the correct answer. which fallacy does this excerpt from “cotton is king” by james henry hammond contain? it was this that brought on the american revolution. we threw off a government not adapted to our social system, and made one for ourselves. the question is how far have we succeeded? the south, so far as that is concerned, is satisfied, harmonious, and prosperous, but demands to be let alone . . you [the north] have been making war upon us [the south] to our very hearthstones. how would you like for us to send lecturers and agitators north, to teach these people this, to aid in combining, and to lead them? . . we [the south] have kept the government conservative to the great purposes of the constitution. a. weak analogy b. ad hominem c. either/or d. ad populum