Who will say that Nature and Liberty were the genii who directed the
labors of the leaders of the Rebellion?
Soil, climate, hereditary traditions, and customs of society, give to a
people the fierceness and gentleness of character, as well as the
perfection of mind and body. This fatal Stockade, with the silent mound of
earth which contains its harvest of death, is a fair and just exponent of
the bigoted and selfish policy that struck down the Flag of the Republic;
of that cruel and unearthly spirit which has despised all the "attachments
with which God has formed the chain of human sympathies," and which,
without a tear of remorse, has strewn the Atlantic Ocean with a broad
pathway of human bones!