Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty.

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

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 time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

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

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.