The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.