William H.Seward has proclaimed that the conflict between freedom and slavery is irrepressible, and that the country cannot remain half free and half slave." "How will _you_ go ?" asked Marie.
"My heart is with the Union.

I don't believe in secession.

There has been no cause sufficient to justify a rupture.

The North has met us time and again in the spirit of concession and compromise.

When we wanted the continuance of the African slave trade the North conceded that we should have twenty years of slave-trading for the benefit of our plantations.
When we wanted more territory she conceded to our desires and gave us land enough to carve out four States, and there yet remains enough for four more.