The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a black man must die, and another white man sets the date and time without consulting one black person. . . . They sentence you to death because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, with no proof that you had anything at all to do with the crime . . . . Yet six months later they come and unlock your cage and tell you, We, us, white folks all, have decided it's time for you to die, because this is the convenient date and time.