We Protest Solemnly In The

All We Ask Is To Be Let Alone.

My Own Convictions As To Negro Slavery Are Strong. It Has Its Evils And Abuses...we Recognize The Negro As God And God's Book And God's Laws, In Nature, Tell Us To Recognize Him - Our Inferior, Fitted Expressly For Servitude...you Cannot Transform The Negro Into Anything One-tenth As Useful Or As Good As What Slavery Enables Them To Be.

A Question Settled By Violence, Or In Disregard Of Law, Must Remain Unsettled Forever.

The War...must Go On Till The Last Man Of This Generation Falls In His Tracks...unless You Acknowledge Our Right To Self-government. We Are Not Fighting For Slavery. We Are Fighting For Independence,and That, Or Extermination, We Will Have.

Sir, It Is True That Republics Have Often Been Cradled In War, But More Often They Have Met With A Grave In That Cradle. Peace Is The Interest, The Policy, The Nature Of A Popular Government. War May Bring Benefits To A Few, But Privation And Loss Are The Lot Of The Many. An Appeal To Arms Should Be The Last Resort, And Only By National Rights Or National Honor Can It Be Justified.