I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.