I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.
Andrew Johnson (1860). “The Constitutionality and Rightfulness of Secession: Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States ... December 18 and 19, 1860”
