Abolition Quote by Henry L. Benning

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as…

— Robert E. Lee

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would…

— John Quincy Adams

“The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing "democracy" and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln.…

— Murray Rothbard

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

— Alexander Hamilton

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did…

— G. Edward Griffin

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it…

— Zachary Taylor

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which…

— Andrew Jackson

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

— Abraham Lincoln

Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters,…

— Thomas Jefferson

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of…

— Richard M. Weaver

“Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the State's Rights…

— Irvin S. Cobb

Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than…

— Jim Webb