 Complete the following phrase:  In December 1860, Stephen F. Hale, Alabamas commissioner to Kentucky, wrote a letter to that states governor about Alabamas justification for secession. In it, he voiced support for the Dred Scott decision, condemned the Republican Party for opposing slavery, and stated that the states secession, which would perpetuate slavery, was the only way to prevent prospective African-American freedmen, whom Hale referred to as half-civilized Africans from waging a race war noting the 