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Noteworthy Quotes

These quotes are ones you will never see in Northern sponsored text books. These are actual quotes from real people. Enjoy them and use them as you need them. Deo Vindice!!

"If the Union was formed by the accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States." ---Daniel Webster, US Senate, February 15, 1833

"Any people whatever have a right to abolish the existing government and form a new one that suits them better" ---Abraham Lincoln, Congressional Records, 1847

"Had President Buchanan, in 1860, sent an armed force to prevent the nullification of the Fugitive Slave Act, as Andrew Jackson threatened to do in 1833, there would have been a secession of fifteen Northern States instead of thirteen Southern State. Had the Democrats won out in 1860, the Northern States would have the seceding States not the Southern." ---George Lunt of Massachusetts in Origins of the Late War

"If the Declaration of Independence justified the secession of 3,000,000 colonists in 1776, I do not see why the Constitution ratified by the same men should not justify the secession of 5,000,000 of the Southerners from the Federal Union in 1861. We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence that government derives its power from the consent of the governed is sound and just, then if the Cotton States, the Gulf States or any other States choose to form an independent nation they have a clear right to do it. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless; and we do not see how one party can have a right to do what another party has a right to prevent. We must ever resist the asserted right of any State to remain in the Union and nullify or defy the laws thereof; to withdraw from the Union is another matter. And when a section of our Union resolves to go out, we shall resist any coercive acts to keep it in. We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets." ---Horace Greeley, New York Tribune

"We of the North couldn't make slavery pay, so we are convinced that it is the sum of all villainy. Our plan is more profitable; we take care of no children or sick people, except as paupers, while the owners of slaves have to provide for them from birth to death. So how we view the issue depends on what kind of glasses we use. If we of the North were called upon to endure one half as much as the Southern people and soldiers do, we would abandon the cause and let the Southern Confederacy be established. We pronounce their cause unholy, but they consider it sacred enough to suffer and die for. Our forefathers in the Revolutionary struggle could not have endured more than these Rebels. A nation preserved with liberty trampled underfoot is much worse than a nation in fragments but with the spirit of liberty still alive. Southerners persistently claim that their rebellion is for the purpose of preserving this form of government." ---Private John H. Haley, Seventeenth Maine Regiment, U.S.A.

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