Pray Excuse Me. I Cannot Take It.

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

Neither Current Events Nor History Show That The Majority Rule, Or Ever Did Rule.

Without Doing Injustice To The Living, It May Safely Be Asserted That Our Loss Is Irreparable; And That Among The Shining Hosts Of The Great And Good Who Now Cluster Around The Banner Of The Country, There Exists No Purer Spirit, No More Heroic Soul, Than That Of The Illustrious Man Whose Death I Join You In Lamenting.

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

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.