I Will Be In My Coffin Before

Nobody Kills Me And Lives To Tell About It.

I Loved The Old Government In 1861. I Loved The Old Constitution Yet. I Think It Is The Best Government In The World, If Administered As It Was Before The War. I Do Not Hate It; I Am Opposing Now Only The Radical Revolutionists Who Are Trying To Destroy It. I Believe That Party To Be Composed, As I Know It Is In Tennessee, Of The Worst Men On Gods Earth - Men Who Would Not Hesitate At No Crime, And Who Have Only One Object In View - To Enrich Themselves.

War Means Fighting, And Fighting Means Killing.

If One Road Led To Hell And The Other To Mexico, I Would Be Indifferent Which To Take.

I Will Be In My Coffin Before I Will Fight Again Under Your Command.