Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.