A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

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

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.

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

Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty.

Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified.

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.