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

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.

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

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

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

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.

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