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

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

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.