To keep it interesting, I was on the lookout for anti-secessionist quotations. Here they are:

Hamilton (in 11), “Let the thirteen states, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system.”

Madison (in 14), “And if novelties are to be shunned, believe me, the most alarming of all novelties, the most wild of all projects, the most rash of all attempts, is that of rending us in pieces in order to preserve our liberties and promote our happiness.”

Hamilton (in 33), “If a number of political societies enter into a larger political society, the laws which the latter may enact, pursuant to the powers intrusted to it by its constitution, must necessarily be supreme over those societies, and the individuals of whom they are composed. It would otherwise be a mere treaty, dependent on the good faith of the parties, and not a government…”

Madison (in 45), “Was, then, the American Revolution effected, was the American Confederacy formed, was the precious blood of thousands spilt, and the hard-earned substance of millions lavished, not that the people of America should enjoy peace, liberty, and safety, but that the government of the individual States, that particular municipal establishments, might enjoy a certain extent of power, and be arrayed with certain dignities and attributes of sovereignty?”

Hamilton (in 85), “The additional securities to republican government, and to liberty, and to property, to be derived from the plan under consideration, consist chiefly in the restraints which the preservation of the Union will impose on local factions and insurrections..."