"Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your ow…"

"Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!"

"No Distinction of Race! No Distinction of Color!"

"It's a Story they tell in the border country, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Yes, Dan'l Webster…"

"[A]n indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government i…"

"When the Union needs my poor support, in peace or in war, I induge the hope that I shall not fail in the performance …"

"Mister Toombs was willing to dissolve the Union to save slavery, Mister Phillips, to save liberty; while Mister Sewar…"

"[A]lways there had been the complicated factor of the one institution that peculiarly set the South apart from the No…"

"Our cause is just, our union is perfect."

"The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom."