Albert Beveridge: “Marshall answered: "I concur with you in thinking that nothing portends more calamity & mischief to the Southern States…”

If this goes down, we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress declaring that the President shall continue in office during life, reserving to another occasion the transfer of the succession to his heirs, and the…

The nature of men forbids us to conclude that we are in no danger from war.

Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.

Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of…