I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
My policy is to have no policy.
We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
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.