[DOC] [TLE] Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) [PAR] Martin Van Buren, (1782-1862), 8th President of the United States. .... He assured 
the South that he would protect slavery in the states where it existed and 
announced his opposition to the abolition of the "peculiar institution" in the District 
of... [DOC] [TLE] The Peculiar Institution and National Honor: The Case of the <i ... [PAR] measures, the Governor assured him that British subjects would not. "act so 
improperly. .... President Martin Van Buren, perhaps wanting to avoid a major 
issue on .... South not to use the argument of national honor to protect the trade. 
The Boston Liberator ... slavery abridged the natural rights of man, he said, it 
could exist. [DOC] [TLE] United States presidential election, 1844 - Wikipedia [PAR] The United States presidential election of 1844 was the 15th quadrennial 
presidential election, ... Democrat Martin Van Buren, the former president and 
presumptive presidential .... He would move back to his original orientation in 
September 1844. .... In the South, Democrats played racist politics and smeared 
Clay as a dark... [DOC] [TLE] The Man - USS John C. Calhoun (SSBN 630) Veterans Association [PAR] Many thanks to past President, Steve Richey, who researched and authored "The 
Man". .... John Ewing Colhoun and the mother of the lady (Floride) he will marry. 
... Calhoun's own future, both socially and economically, was assured by his ... 
Calhoun wrote an essay about this conflict, "The South Carolina Exposition and... [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln and Slavery - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom [PAR] 26 As president, Mr. Lincoln wrote in his Second Annual Message to ... His 
listeners felt that he believed every word he said, and that, like Martin Luther, he 
would go to the .... that slavery's existence in the South was constitutionally 
protected. ... He was critical of slavery as an institution, but never of the South as 
a section. [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln and Secession - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom [PAR] Adams confessed that he awaited the president-elect's reaction 'with some ... 
formation of a sectional party hostile to the South's peculiar institution; and .... so 
far as it would preserve, protect, defend, and extend the slaveholders' democracy
. ..... was right to be worried about Lincoln's election because the mere existence 
of... [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln | HistoryNet [PAR] Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America, the 
leader ... He would go on to establish a respectable record as an attorney and 
was ... defended the peculiar institution of slavery more vociferously, and 
sectional ... be outnumbered, and they feared losing the political power that 
protected slavery. [DOC] [TLE] American Civil War facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Still, no consensus existed on using coercion to force the seceded states back ... 
He stressed that the fort would be supplied with provisions only; and that, ... in 
the South, by the clear preference President Jefferson Davis accorded West 
Pointers. ... about supporting a nation founded in part to protect the institution of 
slavery. [DOC] [TLE] Proceedings of the Convention of Radical Political Abolitionists [PAR] That little party not only claims that there is no law for slavery, and can be no law 
for .... of the slave, and of the whole country, North and South - a deliverance by 
the .... have no lawful authority to violate the rights which they exist only to protect. 
..... another member of the Federal Convention, from Pennsylvania, assured the... [DOC] [TLE] RACIAL REMEDIATION - IU School of Liberal Arts @ IUPUI [PAR] the drive of whites to satisfy and justify feelings of racial superiority will result in 
policies, private ... President Lincoln was no friend of slavery, but his ... lisher 
Horace Greeley in August 1862, he would end slavery, see it maintained,. 5 See 
A. .... desire to punish the South as factors explaining the enactment of the civil 
rights. [DOC] [TLE] From Lawyer to Liberator - Oklahoma Christian University [PAR] President who preserved the Union during

Question: As president, Martin assured the South he would protect this "peculiar institution" where it existed
Answer: Slavery