RI. 4 How does the quoted newspaper excerpt in paragraph 26 contribute to the development of ideas in the article? A. It demonstrates southerners' frustration with abolitionists, exemplifying how southerners used the newspaper to officially declare war on the North. B. It conveys southerners' frustration with abolitionists, demonstrating that southerners were afraid the North would ignite a slave revolt. C. It conveys southerners' hatred of abolitionists, demonstrating that ending slavery was a threat to the southerners' way of life. D. It demonstrates southerners' hatred of abolitionists, exemplifying how southerners were more violent than abolitionists.

C. It conveys southerners' hatred of abolitionists, demonstrating that ending slavery was a threat to the southerners' way of life.

Explanation:

The text you are referring to is an article with several criticisms of abolitionism and those who defended it. The article stated how abolitionists were being irrational and petty about the way of life and the slave system present in southern states. The text expresses how, by an act of envy, the abolitionists wished to exterminate the southern way of life, reducing their supremacy and control and ending the good customs of the Confederate citizens. In summary, the text directly expressed the southerners 'hatred of abolitionists, demonstrating that ending slavery was a threat to the southerners' way of life.