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.

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

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.

All we ask is to be let alone.

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

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.