Let Us Go Home And Cultivate Our

Mr. Blair, I Look Upon Secession As Anarchy. If I Owned The Four Millions Of Slaves In The South, I Would Sacrifice Them All To The Union; But How Can I Draw My Sword Upon Virginia, My Native State?

What A Cruel Thing War Is... To Fill Our Hearts With Hatred Instead Of Love For Our Neighbors.

It Is Easier To Make Our Wishes Conform To Our Means Than To Make Our Means Conform To Our Wishes.

I Can Anticipate No Greater Calamity For The Country Than The Dissolution Of The Union. It Would Be An Accumulation Of All The Evils We Complain Of, And I Am Willing To Sacrifice Everything But Honor For Its Preservation.

The Framers Of Our Constitution Never Exhausted So Much Labor, Wisdom, And Forbearance In Its Formation, And Surrounded It With So Many Guards And Securities, If It Was Intended To Be Broken By Every Member Of The Confederacy At Will.