The Contest Is Not Over, The Strife

My Own Convictions As To Negro Slavery Are Strong. It Has Its Evils And Abuses...we Recognize The Negro As God And God's Book And God's Laws, In Nature, Tell Us To Recognize Him - Our Inferior, Fitted Expressly For Servitude...you Cannot Transform The Negro Into Anything One-tenth As Useful Or As Good As What Slavery Enables Them To Be.

Governments Rest On The Consent Of The Governed, And That It Is The Right Of The People To Alter Or Abolish Them At Will Whenever They Become Destructive Of The Ends For Which They Were Established.

Upon My Weary Heart Was Showered Smiles, Plaudits And Flowers, But Beyond Them I Saw Troubles And Thorns Innumerable.

God Forbid That The Day Should Ever Come When To Be True To My Constituents Is To Be Hostile To The Union.

Butler Is Branded A Felon, An Outlaw, An Enemy Of Mankind, And So Ordered That In The Event Of His Capture, The Officer In Command Of The Capturing Force Do Cause Him To Be Immediately Executed By Hanging.