You Cannot Barter Manhood For Peace.

So Far From Engaging In A War To Perpetuate Slavery, I Am Rejoiced That Slavery Is Abolished. I Believe It Will Be Greatly For The Interest Of The South. So Fully Am I Satisfied Of This That I Would Have Cheerfully Lost All That I Have Lost By The War, And Have Suffered All That I Have Suffered To Have This Object Attained.

With All My Devotion To The Union, And The Feeling Of Loyalty And Duty Of An American Citizen, I Have Not Been Able To Make Up My Mind To Raise My Hand Against My Relative, My Children, My Home. I Have, Therefore, Resigned My Commission In The Army.

I Have Always Observed That Wherever You Find The Negro, Everything Is Going Down Around Him, And Wherever You Find The White Man, You See Everything Around Him Improving.

We Cannot Afford To Be Idle, And Though Weaker Than Our Opponents In Men And Military Equipments, Must Endeavor To Harass, If We Cannot Destroy Them.

We Must Enlist Our Own Snake And Strike Like A Cobra Against Their Vitals With An Attack On Washington.