The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world.

When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.