If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
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The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.Andrew Jackson
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Our Federal Union it must be preserved.
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No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
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