My Trust Is In The Mercy And

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.

I Am As Willing To Serve Now As In The Beginning In Any Capacity And At Any Post Where I Can Do Good. The Lower The Position, The More Suitable To My Ability And The More Agreeable To My Feelings.

It Is Well That War Is So Terrible. We Should Grow Too Fond Of It.

Our Country Demands All Our Strength, All Our Energies. To Resist The Powerful Combination Now Forming Against Us Will Require Every Man At His Place. If Victorious, We Will Have Everything To Hope For In The Future. If Defeated, Nothing Will Be Left For Us To Live For.

True Patriotism Sometimes Requires Of Men To Act Exactly Contrary, At One Period, To That Which It Does At Another, And The Motive Which Impels Them The Desire To Do Right Is Precisely The Same.