Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

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

Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.

A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

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.