“ If the radical traitors would not suffer State troops to move forward until the President came out with a series of unconstitutional proclamations, let the conservative patriots withhold their forces until those unconstitutional schemes are abandoned. If, as we have been told, this wretched man, the President, has been forced to proclaim against the Constitution, let him, by all means, be forced to re-proclaim in its favor, if rascals have compelled him to do wrong, let honest men compel him to do right. ”

“ But we have satisfied ourselves that we cannot enforce the laws of the Union.—And so you have made up your minds to destroy the Union! Because you find you are not strong enough to administer all the laws of the Constitution, you have determined to destroy that sacred instrument altogether!—Because some deluded men say—we wish no longer to live within the temple of the Union, you have set yourselves to work to pull the whole temple down, so that nobody shall ever live in it any more! ”

“ A Governor who should allow the citizens of his State to be drafted, and dragged into the army for the avowed purpose of destroying the Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is, would be sure, in the end, to receive the execration and curses of the people, and would finally fall into the same hated page of history with the obscene joker, who thus abuses the confidence and the patriotism of a loyal people. ”