The Vice-President says, 'There are men in your midst who want the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is,' and he adds, sneeringly, 'They can't have it.' We will tell him there are many such men, and we say to him we will have it.
This quote illustrates Alexander's defense of the Union and the Constitution against dismissive remarks from political opponents.
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