James Jackson of Georgia and William Loughton Smith of South Carolina launched into a four-hour filibuster, before the term was even used, to “harangue,” threaten, and berate the other congressional representatives about “these cursed negro petitions.” Jackson’s ire was particularly focused on the Quakers who threw that antislavery bomb into the House of Representatives, and he swore that anyone who tried to emancipate the South’s slaves would soon find themselves “in danger.” Mortal danger.6
