Let Men Not Ask What The Law

Truth Crushed To Earth Is Truth Still And Like A Seed Will Rise Again.

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

Slavery Existed Before The Formation Of This Union. It Derived From The Constitution That Recognition Which It Would Not Have Enjoyed Without The Confederation. If The States Had Not United Together, There Would Have Been No Obligation On Adjoining States To Regard Any Species Of Property Unknown To Themselves.

A Government, To Afford The Needful Protection And Exercise Proper Care For The Welfare Of A People, Must Have Homogeneity In Its Constituents. It Is This Necessity Which Has Divided The Human Race Into Separate Nations, And Finally Has Defeated The Grandest Efforts Which Conquerors Have Made To Give Unlimited Extent To Their Domain.

Our Armies Were In As Much Chaos In Victory As Theirs In Defeat.