I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance…The Union, sir, is my country.


speech in the US Senate, 1848


I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance…The Union,...

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance…The Union,...

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance…The Union,...

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance…The Union,...