Let Men Not Ask What The Law

A Restitution Of The Union Has Been Rendered Forever Impossible.

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.

Upon My Weary Heart Was Showered Smiles, Plaudits And Flowers, But Beyond Them I Saw Troubles And Thorns Innumerable.

God Forbid That The Day Should Ever Come When To Be True To My Constituents Is To Be Hostile To The Union.

Truth Crushed To Earth Is Truth Still And Like A Seed Will Rise Again.