Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

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.

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

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude...You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be.