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Quotation from Speeches on the Compromise of 1850 by Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster
“The cords that bind the States together are not only many, but various in character.”
Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Calhoun's speech, March 4, 1850, on the bonds of union (The Works of John C. Calhoun, ed. Richard K. Crallé, vol. 4 (1854), Internet Archive OCR text)
Calhoun introduces his account of the spiritual, political, and social ties he believed were breaking one by one.
Citation: "The cords that bind the States together are not only many, but various in character." — Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Calhoun's speech, March 4, 1850, on the bonds of union (The Works of John C. Calhoun, ed. Richard K. Crallé, vol. 4 (1854), Internet Archive OCR text). (id compromise-of-1850-speeches-q4)
Portrait: Henry Clay, Matthew Harris Jouett, Public domain.
