Let Men Not Ask What The Law

How Idle Is This Prating About Natural Rights As Though Still Containing All That Had Been Forfeited.

Slavery Existed Before The Formation Of This Union. It Derived From The Constitution That Recognition Which It Would Not Have Enjoyed Without The Confederation. If The States Had Not United Together, There Would Have Been No Obligation On Adjoining States To Regard Any Species Of Property Unknown To Themselves.

Nothing Fills Me With Deeper Sadness Than To See A Southerner Apologizing For The Defense We Made Of Our Inheritance.

The Troops Of Other States Have Their Reputation To Gain, The Sons Of The Alamo Have Theirs To Maintain.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender Of The Constitution.