It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.