The authors of all our misfortune.

The authors of all our misfortune.

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

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.

All we ask is to be let alone.