A Restitution Of The Union Has Been

To One Who Loves His Country In All Its Parts, It Is Natural To Rejoice In Whatever Contributes To The Prosperity And Honor And Marks The Stability And Progress Of Any Portion Of Its People.

Nothing Fills Me With Deeper Sadness Than To See A Southern Man Apologizing For The Defense We Made Of Our Inheritance. Our Cause Was So Just, So Sacred, That Had I Known All That Has Come To Pass, Had I Known What Was To Be Inflicted Upon Me, All That My Country Was To Suffer, All That Our Posterity Was To Endure, I Would Do It All Over Again.

Let Men Not Ask What The Law Requires, But Give Whatever Freedom Demands.

Slavery Existed Before The Formation Of This Union. It Derived From The Constitution That Recognition Which It Would Not Have Enjoyed Without The Confederation. If The States Had Not United Together, There Would Have Been No Obligation On Adjoining States To Regard Any Species Of Property Unknown To Themselves.

If The Confederacy Fails, There Should Be Written On Its Tombstone: Died Of A Theory.