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Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

The entire purpose of the State of the Union Address is for the president to outline where we stand as a nation.

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.