"If it is worth a bloody struggle to establish this nation, it is worth one to preserve it."
— Nations

January 1, 1970

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Oliver P. Morton, speech (22 November 1860), as quoted in Indiana in the Civil War Era, 1850–1880: History of Indiana III (1995), by Emma Lou Thornbrough. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, p. 102