The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.