Live
Nations are not influenced, as individuals may be, by disinterested friendships; but, when it is their interest to live in amity, we have little reason to apprehend any rupture.
Let us have a Government, by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured.
A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.
We live in a world of “ifs.”
We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.
Why keep alive the question of slavery? It is admitted by all to be a great evil.
The blessing and protection of Heaven are at all times necessary but especially so in times of public distress and danger. The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier, defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

