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.

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.

The authors of all our misfortune.

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

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

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.