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Gen. Jackson's motto.

--Those Yankees who are continually repeating the motto of Old Hickory, ‘"the Union must and shall be preserved,"’ should not forget the words he used on the same occasion. They are as follows:

‘ "But the Constitution cannot be maintained nor the Union preserved in opposition to public feeling, by the mere exertion of the coercive powers confined to the General Government. The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people — in the security it gives to life, liberty, character and property in every quarter of the country, and in the paternal attachment which the citizens of the several States bear to one another as members of one political family, mutually contributing to promote the happiness of each other."

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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 5, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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