"Thus my sword has been tendered to her cause and the tender has been accepted. 

Her soil has been invaded, the enemy is actually at her gates and here I am contending, as the fathers of the Republic did, for the right of self-government and those very principles for the maintenance off which Washington fought, when this, his native state, was a colony of Great Britain. The path of duty and honor is therefore plain." Mathew F. Maury