What Is Defeat? Nothing But

On A Single Winged Word Hath Hung The Destiny Of Nations.

A Large Body Of People, Sufficient To Make A Nation, Have Come To The Conclusion That They Will Have A Government Of A Certain Form. Who Denies Them The Right? Standing With The Principles Of '76 Behind Us, Who Can Deny Them The Right? ... I Maintain On The Principles Of '76 That Abraham Lincoln Has No Right To A Soldier In Fort Sumter. ... You Can Never Make Such A War Popular. ... The North Never Will Endorse Such A War.

The Hand Entrusted With Power Becomes, Either From Human Depravity Or Esprit De Corps, The Necessary Enemy Of The People

To Hear Some Men Talk Of The Government, You Would Suppose That Congress Was The Law Of Gravitation, And Kept The Planets In Their Places.

The Condition Upon Which God Hath Given Liberty To Man Is Eternal Vigilance.