Traitors have begun the conflict, let us continue and end it. Let us settle it now once and for all. Let us settle it, even if the whole South has to be made one common grave yard, and their cotton soaked in blood, let us do it now while the whole North is aroused from the inactivity and apparent laziness in which it has been so long.
There are plenty of men, an abundance of money and a military enthusiasm never before known in the annals of history, all of which combined will do the work nice and clean, and if need be will wipe out that palmetto, pelican, rattlesnake region entirely. The holy cause in which our volunteers are enlisted will urge them on to almost superhuman exertions. The South maybe courageous but I doubt it, they can gas and hag first rate; they can lie and steal to perfection, but I really do believe that they cannot fight-"Barking dogs never bite".
…[In any case] they have no chance to overturn this government. They haven't got the resources…and their property has legs and will be continually disappearing.
They have prospered in dealing in human flesh,--let them now take the results of it.