A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

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

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

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

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

The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave.