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Quotation from Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution) by Robert Y. Hayne
“Do gentlemen estimate the value of the Union at so low a price, that they will not even make one effort to bind the states together with the cords of affection?”
Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution), Section on the tariff (Webster and Hayne's Celebrated Speeches in the United States Senate (1853), Wikisource text)
Hayne asks why the North and West will not relieve the South of a tariff it declares ruinous and unconstitutional.
Citation: "Do gentlemen estimate the value of the Union at so low a price, that they will not even make one effort to bind the states together with the cords of affection?" — Robert Y. Hayne, Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution), Section on the tariff (Webster and Hayne's Celebrated Speeches in the United States Senate (1853), Wikisource text). (id hayne-speech-on-foots-resolution-q5)
Portrait: Robert Y Hayne, Unknown author, Public domain.
