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

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

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

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

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 authors of all our misfortune.

For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.