"The entire South is angry and resentful, and the general current of public sympathy in all the Southern States is towards secession. There is no desire for union. Our Government was formed by consent, and by consent it must be preserved." (NY Times Nov.21, 1860.)
"There is no such thing as a peaceable secession! Peaceable secession is an utter impossibility. Why, sir, our ancestors, our fathers, and our grandfathers, those of them that are yet living amongst us with prolonged lives, would rebude and reproach us; and our children and our grand-children would cry out shame upon us, if we of this generation should dishonor these ensigns of the power of the government and the harmony of that Union which is every day felt among us with so much joy and gratitude." (Daniel Webster, 1850)
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