Why did the audience applaud in the middle of paragraph 5?
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The audience supports the idea that the states with
slavery should secede from the United States of
America and form a new nation.
The audience agrees that the "cornerstone" of the
Confederacy is the idea that people with darker skin
are unequal and should be enslaved.
The audience is excited to hear a political leader use
religious and moral arguments to build the
"cornerstone" of a new nation.
The audience is excited because for the first time they
are able to support a political leader who agrees with
them in that slavery is a moral and just institution.