If I mistake not, my fellow-citizens, it was old George McDuffie that stood up in the senate chamber of the United States and said, 'When I hear the shout of "glorious Union," methinks I hear the shout of a robber gang.' McDuffie saw through his prophetic vision the evils that would result, and has foretold them as if by inspiration from above.
"Fellow-citizens, under the name of Union our country is invaded today.
"These cursed Yankees are invading our country, robbing our people, and desolating our land, and all under the detestable and damning name of Union.

Our representatives in congress have been fighting them for fifty years.

Compromise after compromise has been granted by the South.
We have used every effort to conciliate those at the North.

They have turned a deaf ear to every plea.

They saw our country rich and prosperous, and have come indeed, like a gang of robbers, to steal our property and murder our people.