Border States Quotes

The American Civil War was the wrangling of two armed mobs.

OK then the South won’t get any blood!

The present Administration had no alternative but to accept the war initiated by South Carolina or the Southern Confederacy. The North will sustain the Administration almost to a man, and it ought to sustain it at all hazards.

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

…moderates were inexorably sucked into the vortexes of the sectional passions that led to the war. [American Civil War]

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.

Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States.

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so dearly and was falling to pieces.

It seems impossible that the South can be mad enough to dissolve the Union.

You know how absurd is the fiction put forward by our enemies in the Northern states that the great Civil War which raged between 1861 and 1865 would never have taken place but for Jefferson Davis and myself. Such mighty convulsions, which amount indeed to revolutions, are never the work of individuals, but of divided nations.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

It is an admitted fact that our Union, to some extent, has already been dismembered; and that further dismemberment is impending and threatened. It is a fact that the country is in danger. It is our duty, if we can, to provide a remedy for this.

The Civil war made us a nation rather then an association of states.

The last ray of hope for preserving the Union peaceably expired at the assault upon Fort Sumter.

The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

I will send not a man nor a dollar for the wicked purpose of subduing my sister Southern states.

The Underground Railroad demonstrated to southerners, to slave holders, the extent to which slaves opposed slavery. To the extent to which some radical abolitionists, black and white, were willing to go to help slaves escape. And demonstrated the slow leaching of slavery from the border states which over time would leave them isolated in a slave-holding republic in the deep south. A slave-holding republic which slavery might be liquidated by constitutional means. They, therefore, struck a preemptive strike to create an independent confederacy. That independent confederacy cession led to a war and war, of course, led to emancipation and ironically the end of slavery itself.

Make common cause with the South and refuse to allow passage of Union troops through the city.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections.

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war was over, slavery was ended, and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.

Texas has more effectively capitalized on its opportunities as a border state, and I've always said that I want to look to states that are doing better than we are and replicate those success stories in Arizona.