Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'