The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle