You say we shall submit to your construction. We shall do it, if you can make us; but not otherwise, or in any other manner. That is settled. You may call it secession, or you may call it revolution; but there is a big fact standing before you, ready to oppose you. That fact is freemen with arms in their hands. The cry of the Union will not disperse them; we have passed that point. They demand equal rights; you had better heed the demand. ROBERT TOOMBS (_Farewell Address in the United States Senate_) February Eleventh Equality does not exist between blacks and whites. The one race is inferior in many respects, physically and mentally, to the other. This should be received as a fixed invincible fact in all dealings with the subject. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS (_Vice-President of the Confederacy_) I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (_President of the United States_) _Alexander H. Stephens born in Georgia, 1812_ February Twelfth Those who would shiver into fragments the Union of these States, tear to tatters its now venerated constitution, and even burn the last copy of the Bible, rather than slavery should continue a single hour, together with all their more halting sympathizers, have received, and are receiving their just execration; and the name and opinion and influence of Mr. Clay are fully and, as I trust, effectually and enduringly arrayed against them. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (_Eulogy on Clay, 1852_) The abolitionists were always the fiercest opponents of colonization. The practical improvement of the negro, in his native country, did not suit them so well as the impracticable idea of equalizing black men with white in a strange land. GEORGE LUNT (Massachusetts) _Abraham Lincoln born in Kentucky, 1809_ _Gradual emancipation of slaves discussed at Maysville, Ky., 1849_ February Thirteenth SAINT VALENTINE'S EVE Thou wouldst be loved? then let thy heart From its present pathway part not; Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love a simple duty. EDGAR ALLAN POE _Florida admitted to the Union, 1845_ February Fourteenth A Northern Tribute to the College of Jefferson, Monroe, Tyler, and Marshall As a matter of comparison we have lately read that from William and Mary College, Virginia, thirty-two out of thirty-five professors and instructors abandoned the college work and joined the army in the field. Harvard College sent one professor from its large corps of professors and instructors. GENERAL CHARLES A. WHITTIER (Massachusetts) _The charter of William and Mary College granted, 1693_ February Fifteenth