Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?