Carolina QuotesIf the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson
Carolinian
Source
Farewell Address, Washington, 4 March 1837; Miller Center, University of Virginia
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- speech
- work
- Farewell Address
- year
- 1837
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