say, the people of Ohio are united, if the unanimous
voice of the legislature of that state is a true indication.

"Again, I say, what is the use of concession, conciliation, or
compromise, when, if we yield everything you demand, you cannot
say to us 'It will save us from disunion or war?' Are we not in
danger of quarreling about terms of conciliation, when traitors
are overthrowing the government we wish to preserve? Are we not
dividing ourselves for their benefit? What will satisfy South
Carolina and Florida and Mississippi and Alabama? They want
disunion, and not compromise or conciliation. The Democratic party
would not agree to their terms, and they seceded from the Charleston
and Baltimore conventions. Is it likely that we will yield what
our northern Democratic friends could not yield? Can you expect
this 'black Republican party,' as you please to call it, will yield
to you what your northern Democratic associates dare not? It is
utterly idle to talk about any such terms of concession. I do not
believe any terms which our people could yield, and preserve their
own self-respect, would satisfy South Carolina, Florida, or some
of the other southern states, because they are bent upon disunion.

"We know that gentlemen who represented South Carolina on this
floor, if the newspapers correctly report them, declared in the
Charleston convention, held recently, that they had brooded over
this matter for long years, and that they only sought an opportunity,
an occasion, or, if I may use the word, a pretext, for the secession
of the State of South Carolina and the disruption of the Union.
Some stated that they had brooded over disunion and prayed for its
consummation since boyhood. We know, sir, that the seeds of this
revolution were sowed in the time of Andrew Jackson and John C.
Calhoun. We know that in 1832 the doctrines upon which this
revolution is going forward were initiated, and from that time the
young men of South Carolina have been educated in the school of
disunion. They have cherished these doctrines in their innermost
hearts. All the concessions we might make, all the compromises we
could agree to, all the offerings of peace we could make for the
salvation of the Union, would not be able to secure the desired
end, if South Carolina could prevent it.

"Again, we might, on this side, properly say we have done nothing
to impair any constitutional right. We propose to do nothing to
infringe your