I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.