At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

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

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

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.

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.