You still can fight, though they have taken away your sword." "Some say that the courts will settle these mooted points," Carlisle went on; "others, that Congress must do so.

Yet others are unwilling that even the courts should take it up, and insist that the Constitution is clear and explicit already.

These Southerners say that Congress should make an end to it, by specifically declaring that men have a right to take into any new country what they lawfully own--that is to say, these slaves; because that territory was bought in common by North and South.
The South is just as honest and sincere as the North is, and to be fair about it, I don't believe it's right to claim that the South wants the Union destroyed.

A few hotheads talk of that in South Carolina, in Mississippi, but that is precisely what the sober judgment of the South doesn't desire.

Let us match those secessionists against the abolitionists," he grinned.