Note 152 — CATHOLIC WORLD.
Reading edition
“There can be no question but the enterprise of holding the Union together by force would ultimately prove futile. It would be in violation of the principle of our institutions.”—Harper’s Weekly, editorial leader of March 9, 1861.
“If the Union is really injurious to them (our Southern friends), heaven forbid that we should insist on preserving it.”—Harper’s Weekly, 1861, p. 146.