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.

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

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

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

All we ask is to be let alone.

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

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.