Read the two excerpts representing contrasting views of slavery.

on this subject, i do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. no! no! tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm . . but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

–william lloyd garrison,
the liberator, 1831

however sound the great body of the non-slaveholding states are at present, in the course of a few years they will be succeeded by those who will have been taught to hate the people and institutions of nearly one-half of this union, with a hatred more deadly than one hostile nation ever entertained towards another.

–john c. calhoun,

calhoun’s words suggest that he most likely would have favored

a an honest, open debate in congress over the question of slavery.
b the abolition of slavery throughout the united states and its territories.
c the passage of a gag rule prohibiting the discussion of slavery in congress.
d the formation of a new political party along with william lloyd garrison