Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Their object is disunion.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.