The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the plunge of its precipice, not that the State and the South knew it, because the first seconds of fall always seem like soar.

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

I am often asked “Why do Southerners still care about the Civil War?”… Because it is unique in the American experience. Defeat was total, surrender unconditional and the land still occupied.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.