To the States was published in Whitman's landmark collection, Leaves of Grass (1855).Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky, 1860
To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist
much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty.