Whitelaw Reid: “From the bare idea of enforced, or even voluntary, removal to other sections, they utterly revolt.”

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.