One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Physically speaking we cannot separate.
Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws?
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws among friends?
Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inherit it.
The chief magistrate derives all his authority from the people.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
If the Almighty Ruler of nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.