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4 functions as assume to abridge, impair, or deny rights confessedly secured by the supreme law of the land?"&mdash;

"The names of those who are faithful in misfortune are sacred in the page of history."&mdash;.

"Ye will perhaps make answer, that, being persuaded already as touching the truth of your cause, ye are not to hearken unto any sentence, no, not though angels should define otherwise."&mdash;.

"The extremity of right or law is said to be, when a man ties himself up to niceties, dwells upon letters and syllables, and in the mean time neglects the intent and equity of the law; or when a written law is cunningly and maliciously interpreted."&mdash;.

"You that go about to pervert so sacred and so glorious a law, with your fallacies and jugglings; you who would have this supreme law, and which of all others is most beneficial to mankind, to serve only for the impunity of tyrants; let me tell you,&mdash;let me, I say, be so far a prophet as to tell you,&mdash;that the vengeance of God and man hangs over your head for so horrid a crime."&mdash;.

"When the case happens I shall do that which shall be fit for a judge to do."&mdash;.

"Hitherto thou hast but freed us, and that not fully, from the unjust and tyrannous claim of thy foes; now unite us entirely, and appropriate us to thyself, tie us everlastingly in willing homage to the prerogative of thy eternal throne."&mdash;.

"I think it absolutely certain that the rebellion can in no way be so certainly, speedily, and economically suppressed as by the organized military force of the loyal population of the insurgent regions, of whatever complexion. In no way can irregular violence and servile insurrection be so surely prevented as by the regular organization and regular military employment of those who might otherwise probably resort to such courses. Such organization is now in successful progress, and the concurrent testimony of all connected with the colored regiments in Louisiana and South Carolina is that they are brave, orderly, and efficient. General Butler declares that without his colored regiments he could not have attempted his recent important movements in the Lafourche region; and General Saxton bears equally explicit testimony to the good credit and efficiency of the colored troops recently sent on an expedition along the coast of Georgia. Considering these facts, it seems to me that it would be best to omit from the proclamation all reference to military employment of the enfranchised population, leaving it to the natural course of things already well begun;