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

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.

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

Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

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.

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