Which legislator was a symbol of the old south? ?

There were many famous and influential legislators in the Old South, especially in the time leading up to the Civil War, but perhaps one of the most prominent was John C. Breckinridge

Abraham Lincoln onced stated no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government, but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism. Therefore the Anti-Imperialist League did not believe that Lincoln would have supported the Annexation of the Phillippines.