Salmon P. Chase

When Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the state. The Act which …

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

The way to resumption is to resume.

All that they seem to say is 'nigger, nigger, nigger'.

True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, whereever it sees man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights.