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

It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.