Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Politics: Famous Utterances
You shall not pile, with servile toil,
Your monuments upon my breast,
Nor yet within the common soil
Lay down the wreck of power to rest,
Where man can boast that he has trod
On him that was “the scourge of God.”
Edward Everett.—Alaric the Visigoth.
Cotton is King.
Governor Manning.—Speech: Columbia, South Carolina, 1858.
If this bill (for the admission of Orleans Territory as a State) passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation, and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Josiah Quincy.—Abridged Cong. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811, Vol. IV. p. 327.