Vicksburg Is The Nail Head That Holds

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

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.

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.

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

Be Not Haughty With The Humble; Be Not Humble With The Haughty.