"The General Assembly shall, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and every tenth year thereafter, c…"

"No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be p…"

"I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I s…"

"The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states, …"

"If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quar…"

"The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves."

"The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards. The approximate loss was upward of five h…"

"As ensigns of an unholy cause the Confederate flags are, and of right ought to be, odious to the eyes of loyalty."

"War means fighting, and fighting means killing."

"The issue before the country is the extinction of slavery... No man of common sense, who has observed the progress of…"