Advantage Quote by Robert Toombs

“All of our territory lying beyond the Alleghanies, north and south, was first won for us by the Southwesterners, fighting for their own hand.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“the Southern States rebelled against the usurpation of their rights under the Constitution as sovereign states. It’s critical to remember that, until that time,…

— Joseph Befumo

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves,…

— Daniel Webster

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion…

— Isham G. Harris

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their…

— Woodrow Wilson

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But…

— Robert E. Lee

“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across the South—as…

— Jay Winik

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their…

— William H. Seward

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the…

— Daniel Webster

“...[at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not…

— James Madison

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

Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of…

— Melville Fuller