Quote for the day

"If slavery be the destined sword of the hand of the destroying angel which is to sever the ties of this Union, the same sword will cut in sunder the bonds of slavery itself. A dissolution of the Union for the cause of slavery would be followed by a servile war in the slave-holding states, combined with a war between the two severed portions of the Union. It seems to me that its result might be the extirpation of slavery from this whole continent; and, calamitous and desolating as this course of events in its progress must be, so lorious would be its final issue, that, as God shall judge me, I dare not say that it is not to be desired."

John Quincy Adams
November 29, 1820
From the memoirs of John Quincy Adams, V, 210