It Is A Duty We Owe To

The Withdrawal Of A State From A League Has No Revolutionary Or Insurrectionary Characteristic. The Government Of The State Remains Unchanged As To All Internal Affairs. It Is Only Its External Or Confederate Relations That Are Altered. To Term This Action Of A Sovereign A 'rebellion' Is A Gross Abuse Of Language.

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 The Gentleman Go To Revelation To Learn The Decree Of God - Let Him Go To The Bible. . . . I Said That Slavery Was Sanctioned In The Bible, Authorized, Regulated, And Recognized From Genesis To Revelation. . . . Slavery Existed Then In The Earliest Ages, And Among The Chosen People Of God; And In Revelation We Are Told That It Shall Exist Till The End Of Time Shall Come. You Find It In The Old And New Testaments - In The Prophecies, Psalms, And The Epistles Of Paul; You Find It Recognized - Sanctioned Everywhere.

For An Enemy So Relentless In The War For Our Subjugation, We Could Not Be Expected To Mourn; Yet, In View Of Its Political Consequences, It Could Not Be Regarded Otherwise Than As A Great Misfortune For The South.

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.