It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.