A Restitution Of The Union

It Is Not Differences Of Opinion; It Is Geographical Lines, Rivers, And Mountains Which Divide State From State, And Make Different Nations Of Mankind.

If You Will Not Have It Thus: If In The Pride Of Power, If In Contempt Of Reason And Reliance Upon Force, You Say We Shall Not Go, But Shall Remain As Subjects To You, Then, Gentlemen Of The North, A War Is To Be Inaugurated The Like Of Which Men Have Not Seen.

Our Government Is An Agency Of Delegated And Strictly Limited Powers. Its Founders Did Not Look To Its Preservation By Force; But The Chain They Wove To Bind These States Together Was One Of Love And Mutual Good Offices.

Our Armies Were In As Much Chaos In Victory As Theirs In Defeat.

A Question Settled By Violence, Or In Disregard Of Law, Must Remain Unsettled Forever.