Claiborne Fox Jackson

“Your requisition is illegal, unconstitutional, and revolutionary in its object, inhuman and diabolical, and cannot be complied with.”

“The destiny of the slave-holding States of this Union is one and the same.”

“Missouri will not furnish one man to coerce our sister States.”

“Rise, then, and drive out ignominiously the invaders who have dared to desecrate the soil which your labors have made fruitful, and which is consecrated by your homes.”