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.

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

Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting.

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

I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence.

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

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.