The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all na…

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.