Pray Excuse Me. I Cannot

Let Men Not Ask What The Law Requires, But Give Whatever Freedom Demands.

To One Who Loves His Country In All Its Parts, It Is Natural To Rejoice In Whatever Contributes To The Prosperity And Honor And Marks The Stability And Progress Of Any Portion Of Its People.

Our Government Is An Agency Of Delegated And Strictly Limited Powers. Its Founders Did Not Look To Its Preservation By Force; But The Chain They Wove To Bind These States Together Was One Of Love And Mutual Good Offices.

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.

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.