They poisoned your fountains, put mines under your soldiers' prisons, organized bands whose leaders were concealed in your homes, and whose commissions ordered the torch to be carried to your cities, and the yellow-fever to your wives and children.
They planned one universal bonfire of the North, from Lake Ontario to the Missouri.

They murdered, by systems of starvation and exposure, sixty thousand of your sons as brave and heroic as ever martyrs were.

They destroyed, in the four years of horrid war, another army so large that it would reach almost around the globe in marching-column.

And then to give to the infernal drama a fitting close, and to concentrate into one crime all that is criminal in crime and all that is detestable in barbarism, they murdered the President of the United States." "I allude to these horrid events," continued Mr.Shellabarger, "not to revive frightful memories, or to bring back the impulses towards the perpetual severance of this people which they provoke.

I allude to them to remind us how utter was the overthrow and the obliteration of all government, divine and human, how total was the wreck of all constitutions and laws, political, civil and international.