It was a southerner who said, that the best blood of Virginia flowed in the veins of her slaves!
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
The secretary proved to be a southerner, a young fellow from Georgia, who could not have been more than twenty-five years old.
"The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army"
Margaret Vandercook
In Washington the current at first seemed to be all setting in favor of the Nullifiers; they even counted on Jackson's support, as he was a southerner and a states'-rights man.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt