The admission of the States of Wyoming and Idaho to the Union are events full of interest and congratulation, not only to the peop...le of those States now happily endowed with a full participation in our privileges and responsibilities, but to all our people. Another belt of States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not--will not be forgotten nor neglected.... But those who fought against the Nat...ion cannot and do not look to it for relief.... Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said, the devil takes care of his own. Much more should a good spirit--the spirit of the Constitution and the Union--take ca...re of its own. I think it can not do less, and live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, you Yankees and your holy principle about savin' the Union. You're plunderin' pirates that's what. Well, you think there's n...o Confederate army where you're goin'. You think our boys are asleep down here. Well, they'll catch up to you and they'll cut you to pieces you, you nameless, fatherless scum. I wish I could be there to see it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great battleground for the defence and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe ... the lands of the... rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the [Utah] Territory is virtually under the theocratic government of the Mormon Church. The union of church and state is compl...ete. The result is the usual one, the usurpation or absorption of all temporal authority and power by the church. Polygamy and every other evil sanctioned by the church is safe. To destroy the temporal power of the Mormon Church is the end in view.... Mormonism as a sectarian idea is nothing, but as a system of government it is our duty to deal with it as an enemy to our institutions, and its supporters and leaders as criminals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I now have next to no hope of a restoration of the old Union.... If it is the settled and final judgment of any slave State that s...he cannot live in the Union, I should not think it wise or desirable to retain her by force, even if it could be done. But am I, therefore, to oppose the war? If it were a war of conquest merely, certainly I should oppose it.... But the war is forced on us. We cannot escape it. While ... perhaps in all the cotton-growing States, a deciding and controlling public judgment has deliberately declared against remaining in the Union, it is quite certain that in several States rebellious citizens are bent on forcing out of the Union States whose people are not in favor of secession.... If force had been employed to meet force, I believe several States now out of the Union would have remained in it.... The war ... for the defence of the capital, for the maintenance of the authority of the Government and the rights of the United States, I think is necessary, wise, and just.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of th...e heart, everything falls away except one's native State;Mneither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Unio...n, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it ...themselves,--the union between themselves and the State,--and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in the same relation to the State that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union which have prevented them from resisting the State?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »