Retreat? No. I Propose To

There Are But Two Parties Now: Traitors And Patriots. And I Want Hereafter To Be Ranked With The Latter And, I Trust, The Stronger Party.

How Do People Come Up With A Date And A Time To Take Life From Another Man? . . . Twelve White Men Say A Black Man Must Die, And Another White Man Sets The Date And Time Without Consulting One Black Person. . . . They Sentence You To Death Because You Were At The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time, With No Proof That You Had Anything At All To Do With The Crime . . . . Yet Six Months Later They Come And Unlock Your Cage And Tell You, We, Us, White Folks All, Have Decided It's Time For You To Die, Because This Is The Convenient Date And Time.

My Family Is American, And Has Been For Generations, In All Its Branches, Direct And Collateral

There Is Nothing More I Should Do To It Now, And Therefore I Am Not Likely To Be More Ready To Go Than At This Moment.

Although A Soldier By Profession, I Have Never Felt Any Sort Of Fondness For War, And I Have Never Advocated It, Except As A Means Of Peace.