The Contract between the States--let it be kept.

It was pledged in good faith--the cup went around among equals.

There is no more solemn covenant; we shall prosper but as we maintain it.

Is it not for the welfare and the grandeur of the whole that each part should have its healthful life?
The whole exists but by the glow within its parts.
Shall we become dead members of a sickly soul?
God forbid! but sister planets revolving in their orbits about one central Idea, which is Freedom by Cooeperation.

To each her own life, varied, rich, complete, and her communal life, large with service rendered and received! Each bound to other and to that central Thought by primal law, but each a sovereign orb, grave mistress of her own affairs! Slavery! Ay, I will give you that though you want it not! Slavery is abominable.