I was raised to farm work.

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.