I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.