“Admit the right of the seceding states to break up the union at pleasure…and how long will it be before the new confederacies created by the first disruption shall be resolved into still smaller fragments and the continent become one vast theater of civil war, military license, anarchy, and despotism? Better settle it at whatever the cost, and settle it forever.”
I believe this comes from Pvt. Samuel Evans, 70th Ohio

If the United States submits to a division now, it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of Mexico, which is eternal war.
General Sherman

I thought I would post what a couple of folk had to say about the subject.

Kevin Dally