The land was named Redcliffe because it stood at the edge of a cliff which was made of a reddish clay. He was elected as a Senator by the legislature. He defended slavery by saying that all classes of people need servants to do menial duties. He believed that the working class of the North and the slaves of the South provided the substructure, or mudsills, where great societies were created. No power on earth dares to make war upon it.
Cotton is king.
This was a speech on the admission of Kansas to the Union. He believed that cotton was the key to the economic hiearchy of the nation. According to him, the Northern abolitionists should have been thankful that cotton existed. He stated that the South made 100,000,000 dollars worth of cotton and only charged 65,000,000. He claimed that the South must be left alone by the Northern abolitionists.