4. Connecting to a larger context Source: President James Buchanan, fourth annual message to Congress (December 3, 1860)
All for which the slave States have ever contended, is to be let alone and permitted to manage
their domestic institutions in their own way. As sovereign States, they, and they alone, are
responsible before God and the world for the slavery existing among them. ...
*The Southem States, standing on the basis of the Constitution, have a right to demand this act of
justice from the States of the North Should it be refused, then the Constitution, to which all the
States are parties, will have been willfully violated by one portion of them in a provision essential to
the domestic security and happiness of the remainder. In that event the injured States, after having
first used all peaceful and constitutional means to obtain redress, would be justified in revolutionary
resistance to the Government of the Union...-
Write a short paragraph that connects this excerpt from document 2 to its larger historical context during
the era in question. After your paragraph, explain how you are meeting the essay's requirements for
contextualization. (5 points)
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