Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

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

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.