Our national wound was too deep to be lightly healed.

When the President issued his Emancipation Proclamation my heart overflowed with joy, and I said: 'This is the first bright rift in the war cloud.'" "And did you really think that they would accept the terms of freedom and lay down their arms ?" asked Robert.
"I hardly thought they would," continued Captain Sybil.

"I did not think that their leaders would permit it.

I believe the rank and file of their army are largely composed of a mass of ignorance, led, manipulated, and moulded by educated and ambitious wickedness.

In attempting to overthrow the Union, a despotism and reign of terror were created which encompassed them as fetters of iron, and they will not accept the conditions until they have reached the last extremity.