Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

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

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.

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

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.

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