How does a State sink partly into death
By joining other States? Can it accede
And thereby lose its virtue to secede?
First Phantom
The Union is much older than accession.
Second Phantom
Some Union, not the Union which you rule.
The states which formed the old Confederacy
Withdrew to form the Union. Liberty
Is older than all States.
Her handmaiden has always been secession.
First Phantom
These arguments are used but to befool
The minds who loathe the wrong they would conceal.
No justice will be lost by him who waits.
Second Phantom
They ask a council for the general weal
Of all the States these matters to arrange
Without the flow of blood.
First Phantom