I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.
– Henry A. Wise
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
– Henry A. Wise
We in the South claim to be high-minded, gentlemanly, lordly fellows, who think nothing of money; and, therefore, we are poor.